Consumer Prices & Industrial Production (Dec.)

With the earlier sharp falls in energy prices now dropping out of the annual comparison, base effects helped to lift headline CPI inflation back above 2% in December, for the first time since mid-2014. Underlying price pressures remained relatively subdued, but we expect an acceleration in wage growth and a large fiscal stimulus to push both headline and core CPI inflation up towards 3% this year.

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