Not including energy and other
volatile items like food, alcohol and tobacco, overall consumer price inflation was 0.8 percent, a rate the ECB consider too low for a healthy economy.
The report also said the average of the Bank of Canada's three measures of core inflation, which are designed to leave out the noise of more -
volatile items like gasoline, was two per cent last month.
What's likely to be a bigger concern for rate - setters is that the core rate, which strips out potentially
volatile items like energy and food, fell to just 0.7 percent in the year to April from 1 percent the month before.
Not exact matches
Such model included meteorological factors
like levels of aerosols, anthropogenic and biogenic
volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ozone, carbon dioxide, methane, and other
items that influence global temperature — the surface albedo among them.
It would be more precise to say that
volatile compounds from household
items like your deodorant and shampoo are one of the biggest sources of air pollution in Western cities (24 February, p 23).