Deflation!

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Puggit

Original Poster:

49,122 posts

263 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8009718.stm

RPI down to -0.4

Thread will probably get moved, but 'the lounge' is so dead...

wobert

5,369 posts

237 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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The look at the "other" measure - still at 2.9% down from 3.2%.

My gut feeling is it won't reduce further due to the cost of imported goods increasing due to the weakness of the pound, and manufacturers increasing their prices to improve margins.


Puggit

Original Poster:

49,122 posts

263 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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15 minutes - wouldn't have happened in the old days!

Engineer1

10,486 posts

224 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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the RPI basket will just get changed, Samsung are doing a new style of flat screen televison that could go in to bring us back into inflation LED TV, wink

digger_R

1,808 posts

221 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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Puggit said:
15 minutes - wouldn't have happened in the old days!
where has everyone gone, is there a bikeshed where all the cool kids are hanging out.

this has minutes before going off to the news or finance section anyway