India, April 16 -- UK consumer price inflation weakened more than expected to a three-month low in March ahead of an increase in energy bills in April, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.
Consumer prices registered an annual growth of 2.6 percent, slower than the 2.8 percent increase in February. Prices were forecast to climb 2.7 percent.
Core inflation that excludes prices of energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, weakened to 3.4 percent, in line with expectations, from 3.5 percent in the previous month.
The annual growth in goods prices eased to 0.6 percent from 0.8 percent. Likewise, services inflation posted 4.7 percent, down from 5.0 percent in February.
The largest downward contributions to annual inflation came from...