Consumer prices rose 2 percent in June from a year earlier, a bit higher than economists expected, with a big jump in hotel prices coinciding with a blockbuster series of concerts. Great Britain, Inflation (Economics), Economic Conditions and Trends, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Wages and Salaries, Bank of England, Interest Rates, Swift, Taylor, Pop and Rock Music, Hotels and Travel Lodgings, Service Industries Consumer prices rose 2 percent in June from a year earlier, a bit higher than economists expected, with a big jump in hotel prices coinciding with a blockbuster series of concerts. NYT > Business
U.K. Inflation Steady as Economists Puzzle Over ‘Taylor Swift Effects’
