Last week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that the consumer prices index (CPI) had fallen back to the Bank of England's (BoE) 2% target in December.
It was the first time since November 2009 that the rate had met the target, and the drop surprised many economists, who had widely predicted that the rate would stay at November 2013's figure of 2....
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