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UK Core Inflation Rate

UK Core Inflation Rate 16 June 2021

UK Core Inflation Rate 16 June 2021: 2% for May 2021, above the 1.5% forecast and up from 1.3% in April 2021. It is the highest of the last 12 releases. 7 of the last 12 releases came in above the forecast. It was released on Wed 16 Jun 2021 at 06:00 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
2%
May 2021
Forecast
1.5%
The market consensus
Previous
1.3%
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 16 June 2021: 2% for May 2021 against a 1.5% forecast, with the last 12 releases
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The last 12 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
16 Jun 2021May2%1.5%1.3%
19 May 2021Apr1.3%1.3%1.1%
21 Apr 2021Mar1.1%1.1%0.9%
24 Mar 2021Feb0.9%1.4%1.4%
17 Feb 2021Jan1.4%1.3%1.4%
20 Jan 2021Dec1.4%1.3%1.1%
16 Dec 2020Nov1.1%1.4%1.5%
18 Nov 2020Oct1.5%1.3%1.3%
21 Oct 2020Sep1.3%1.3%0.9%
16 Sep 2020Aug0.9%0.6%1.8%
19 Aug 2020Jul1.8%1.3%1.4%
15 Jul 2020Jun1.4%1.2%1.2%
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