The current rates of wage and price inflation may be unusually low, but we are becoming increasingly concerned that the dwindling slack in the labour market will trigger a rise in wage inflation this year. Barring an unexpected acceleration in productivity growth, that pick-up in wage growth is likely to prompt a rebound in core inflation too.
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