UK consumer price inflation fell 0.1 percentage points in April to 2.4%, a fresh one-year low and missing economists' expectations of inflation remaining at 2.5%.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the largest downward pressure on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) came from air fares, which were "influenced" by the timing of Easter, while c...
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