CPI

Last year saw yet another change in leadership in Japan, as Yoshihide Suga resigned as prime minister after less than a year.

The UK’s Consumer Price Index rose 20 basis points above expectations to 5.4% in the 12 months to December 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics, reaching its highest level since March 1992.

I’ve been doing some ISEB questions recently.

Food and energy rises

Inflation above target

Overshot market expectation of 3.9%

Pandemic ‘calling the shots’

Investors debate a Federal Reserve decision

OBR forecasts, business rates and spending review

Relief likely to be temporary as energy and food prices rise