Spain’s inflation jumps to 4.3%: what the fuel-driven surge means for autumn bills

This month, petrol pumps have almost single-handedly rewritten Spain’s cost of living. The country’s headline inflation rate leapt to 4.3 per cent in the month of August, its highest reading in more than three years, even as the pressure on everyday prices away from fuel actually eased. Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Friday that consumer prices rose 4.3 per cent in the…

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