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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

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The annual rate of inflation fell to 0.3 per cent as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (or to 1.1 per cent by the Retail Prices Index). The Bank of England predicted a touch of deflation in the spring. Unemployment fell by 97,000 to 1.86 million in the last quarter of 2014.

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