UK inflation is expected to tumble to within touching distance of the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target when consumer price data for April is published this week, thanks to a sharp drop in household energy bills.
But investors are likely to focus particularly on the services component of inflation, which is closely monitored by the BoE as a gauge of domestic price pressures.
Economists polled by Reuters expect a 2.1 per cent annual rise in headline consumer prices in the figures published on Wednesday, down from 3.2 per cent in the previous month and far below the 42-year high of 11.1 per cent reached in October 2022.
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