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We're signing out now - here's what you need to know after a week of major economic updates
By Jimmy Rice, Money blog editor
The centre-point of a significant week in the economy was inflation data, released first thing on Wednesday, that showed price rises accelerated in July to 2.2%.
Economists attributed part of the rise to energy prices - which have fallen this year, but at a much slower rate than they did last year.
As our business correspondent Paul Kelso pointed out, it felt like the kind of mild fluctuation we can probably expect month to month now that sky high price hikes are behind us, though analysts do expect inflation to tick up further through the remainder of the year.