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Food or energy - which is the greatest inflation threat?

The upward pressure on inflation this year from the recent surge in the cost of agricultural commodities will be much greater than that from the pick-up in oil prices. Fortunately from this perspective, neither is likely to be sustained. The second round effects are also likely to be limited.

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