The Consumer Prices Index rate of inflation climbed to 2.6% last month, from 2.4% in June.
It represents the first rise in inflation in four months. Analysts had anticipated a marginal fall in the CPI rate, which was as high as 5.2% in September last year before starting to fall. T...
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