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nnual US inflation fell to 6.5% in December, down from 7.1% in November. Prices slipped by 0.1% compared with the month before, the first month of deflation since May 2020. Soaring inflation has “firmly established” the monthly publication of the US consumer price index “as the world’s most important economic data point”, says John Authers