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UK Core Inflation Rate

UK Core Inflation Rate 19 February 2020

UK Core Inflation Rate 19 February 2020: 1.6% for January 2020, above the 1.5% forecast and up from 1.4% in December 2019. 2 of the last 12 releases came in above the forecast. It was released on Wed 19 Feb 2020 at 09:30 UTC.

These figures were verified on 4 Oct 2026 from the source: Office for National Statistics. This page reports the release as published: the figures, the consensus forecast and what a print like it usually does to the currency.

Actual
1.6%
January 2020
Forecast
1.5%
The market consensus
Previous
1.4%
As the source gives it

What a print like this usually does

Above the forecast: A beat can support sterling as markets see underlying inflation as harder to bring down and price a tighter BoE path.

UK Core Inflation Rate 19 February 2020: 1.6% for January 2020 against a 1.5% forecast, with the last 12 releases
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The last 12 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
19 Feb 2020Jan1.6%1.5%1.4%
15 Jan 2020Dec1.4%1.7%1.7%
18 Dec 2019Nov1.7%1.7%1.7%
13 Nov 2019Oct1.7%1.7%1.7%
16 Oct 2019Sep1.7%1.7%1.5%
18 Sep 2019Aug1.5%1.8%1.9%
14 Aug 2019Jul1.9%1.8%1.8%
17 Jul 2019Jun1.8%1.8%1.7%
19 Jun 2019May1.7%1.7%1.8%
22 May 2019Apr1.8%1.9%1.8%
17 Apr 2019Mar1.8%1.9%1.8%
20 Mar 2019Feb1.8%1.9%1.9%
The release before:UK Core Inflation Rate 15 January 2020The release after:UK Core Inflation Rate 25 March 2020UK Core Inflation Rate: every recent resultThis week’s economic calendar