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Inflation picks up

Consumer price inflation is likely to have risen in April to the highest since 2013 on the back of a further increase in pork prices. This may trigger concerns about a re-run of the pork-powered surges in inflation that caused macro worries in 2007 and 2011. However, we don’t expect headline inflation to rise much further this year.

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