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Inflation data in the 19 - member euro area dropped to 1.4 percent (year - on - year) in May, from 1.9 percent in April, according to fresh figures Wednesday from the European statistics office.

British government figures showed inflation rising at a rate of 3 percent in October — unchanged from the previous month.

That's bad compared with the U.S. and the European Union, where the rates of inflation are 2.7 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively, but economists not affiliated with the government say the real figure is at least twice as high.

Polish inflation figures which often predict trends in the rest of the region, showed a pick - up in the annual rate to 1.6 percent in April from 1.3 percent a month earlier, largely in line with expectations.

Transportation costs pushed Singapore's inflation rate to 5.4 percent in April, the most this year, government figures show.

The figure below shows some of the key indicators from the Fed's dashboard, including unemployment, the Fed's guess at the «natural rate» (the lowest unemployment rate consistent with stable inflation), actual inflation (PCE core, the Fed's preferred gauge), and the Fed's inflation target of 2 percent.

The inflation rate, which had been slightly positive, was minus 0.2 percent in February, according to official figures.

However, as the figure below shows, while unemployment is clearly below the Fed's full - employment - unemployment rate of 4.7 percent, core inflation has been going the «wrong» way, i.e., slowing, not speeding up (see its down - tick at the end of the figure).

Inflation as measured by the core personal consumption expenditures price index jumped to 1.5 percent in the first quarter, government figures showed on Thursday, a jump from 0.4 percent the prior quarter.

The figure shows that in the first quarter of 2017, forecasters expected that 2018 CPI would be running at 2.3 percent, consistent with the Fed's 2 percent inflation target using the PCE measure of inflation.

Personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation, meanwhile, rose to 2.2 percent in February, higher than the 2.1 percent reported in January, although the monthly figures slipped to 0.2 from 0.5 percent.

Analysis of the figures shows that the non-food group recorded a year - on - year inflation rate of 16.3 percent in April compared to 15.6 percent in March.

Transport secretary Phil Hammond said, «It would normally be the case that next year's regulated train fares are calculated using July's inflation figure, plus one percent.

Using this year's revised inflation assumptions, the cut would be 30 percent (lowest dotted line in Figure 2).

When adjusted for inflation, however, the spending figure represents a 5 percent decline.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners, Canada and Mexico, was 4.6 percent higher in July 2012 than in July 2011, totaling $ 75.7 billion, unadjusted for inflation (Table 1 and Figure 1), according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Instead, it stood at $ 363,400 in January, more than 46 percent higher than the cost when figuring for inflation alone.

Inflation passed the Reserve Bank's six percent benchmark; unemployment hit a 13 - year high and GDP growth slid to a negligible 0.1 percent according to IMF figures.