{"id":197554,"date":"2024-12-18T09:31:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/uk-inflation-rate-how-quickly-are-prices-rising\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:31:23","slug":"uk-inflation-rate-how-quickly-are-prices-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/uk-inflation-rate-how-quickly-are-prices-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"UK inflation rate: How quickly are prices rising?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/branded_news\/1200\/cpsprodpb\/1333\/production\/_127151940_89f08761-4848-4ac0-aee5-fbf4084a36b5.jpg?resize=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"UK inflation rate: How quickly are prices rising?\" title=\"UK inflation rate: How quickly are prices rising?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bank also considers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/inflationandpriceindices\/bulletins\/consumerpriceinflation\/may2024\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">other measures<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>, such as &#8220;core inflation&#8221; when deciding whether and how to change rates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Core inflation doesn&#8217;t include food or energy prices because they tend to be very volatile, so can be a better indication of longer term trends. The measure was 3.5% in November, up from 3.3% in the year to October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In October, the Bank governor Andrew Bailey said it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2lp5l9dpro\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">could be a &#8220;bit more aggressive&#8221; at cutting borrowing costs<\/a>, if inflation remained under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, after the Budget at the end of that month, the Bank predicted that the policies it contained &#8211; such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/explainers-63635185\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">an increase in National Insurance Contributions paid by employers<\/a> &#8211;  would lift inflation slightly as businesses would pass on their increased costs through higher prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing the November rate decision, Mr Bailey indicated any further cuts were likely to be gradual, adding: &#8220;We need to make sure inflation stays close to target, so we can&#8217;t cut interest rates too quickly or by too much.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December the OECD think tank also predicted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2y51ej0pko\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">rates would be higher for longer<\/a> due to UK Budget measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bank is widely expected to hold rates at 4.75% at its next meeting on Thursday 19 December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-12196322\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank also considers other measures, external, such as &#8220;core inflation&#8221; when deciding whether and how to change rates. Core inflation doesn&#8217;t include food or energy prices because they tend to be very volatile, so can be a better indication of longer term trends. The measure was 3.5% in November, up from 3.3% in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/branded_news\/1200\/cpsprodpb\/1333\/production\/_127151940_89f08761-4848-4ac0-aee5-fbf4084a36b5.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2955,2364,36629,3176,988],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197556,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197554\/revisions\/197556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}