UK data: Annual inflation hits an 18 year high | Forexlive

British Retail Consortium (BRC) said overall shop price
inflation rose to
8.9% from 8.4% in February

• largest

  increase since the
  British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) records
  started in 2005

The food category prices were 15% higher than a year ago.

More:

• “Shop price inflation has yet to peak,” said BRC Chief Executive Helen Dickinson

Info via Reuters.

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Last week we had ugly official CPI data from the UK: