While the further, albeit modest, falls in payroll employment and our seasonally adjusted measure of single-month job vacancies in August suggest that the labour market continued to loosen gradually, wage growth remained sticky. As a result, today’s data release will do little to alleviate the Bank of England’s concerns over the upside risks to inflation.
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