The 0.3 m/m increase in June's consumer price index, which was partly due to a 3.4%m/m increase in gasoline prices, brought the brief period of "deflation" to an end. The annual inflation rate edged up to +0.1% last month. By early next year it will be back to 2% or higher, as the earlier slump in energy prices drops out of the annual comparison.
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