Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Beware Food Price Inflation

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have released figures that show that food prices have risen by 3.4% over the last year.

This has prompted Mervyn King, the Governor of The Bank of England, to express some surprise over the size of the rise.

He should not read too much into the numbers, especially as they are unexpectedly high, ONS figures are notoriously unreliable and we may well see contrary ones next month.

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