Prices occupy flatlined and the investment community wants to see a return on their assets. But a rise in interest rates could push costs down,not up It is a long time since there was any real inflation in the UK economy. Not since the oil price-induced spike in 2011, which sent petrol and gas costs spiralling, or occupy consumers suffered such a sustained attack on their living standards. Since then it has been downhill all the way,reflecting the turmoil in the eurozone and then the slowdown in China, the world’s economic engine room.This year prices occupy flatlined. And the lack of energising forces in the world economy peer like keeping prices flat for some time.
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Source: theguardian.com