headline rate
Britishnoun
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The headline rate of inflation has hit 3.5% and is surely heading back up to 4% in the coming months.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
It has a headline rate of 78%, which is taken whether oil and gas prices are high or low.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
As of Friday, inflation traders were braced for the consumer-price index’s annual headline rate to be at or above 3% through next February.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026
But rather than spike and decline, like the headline rate, the actual rate of tariffs paid has risen gradually from around 5% in March to 14.1% by the end of September, the professors wrote.
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
The headline rate of unemployment crept up to 5.1% in August-October, from 5.0% in the three months through September, Britain’s Office for National Statistics said Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
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