The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) the headline measure of the rising cost of living-rose by 2.3% compared with City forecasts of 2.1%.
Although a sharp fall from March's figure of 3.2%, the "miss" was big enough to alarm City markets and send traders and economists to rewrite their expectations for rate cuts from the Bank of England.
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