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Bank of England expected to leave interest rates on hold on Thursday despite inflation hitting 3.1% – business live

The Guardian Australia (Business) Graeme Wearden

16 Sept 2026 17:36 AEST Live blog A running feed, still being written. Summary

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Rising motor fuel costs have pushed UK inflation to a five-month high in August

The cost of goods produced by UK factories rose at a faster rate in August too.

Producer output prices – or the cost of goods at the ‘factory gate’ - rose by 3.7% in the year to August, up from 3.3% in July.

“Rising crude oil and petrol prices increased both the annual cost of raw materials and the price of goods leaving factories respectively.”

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Niral Score 13.6 mundaneloaded

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cost3goods3factories2inflation2prices2rose2

Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 A story about politics, written without coded language Sourcing 41 unattributednamed sources Mood 53.9 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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