Analysts had expected the prices paid index to be 60.
Analysts were expecting the index to be flat.
Another evaluation comes from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, to be officially released Tuesday.
If that were so, you would expect the R-word index to be a leading indicator of recession.
The core Consumer Price Index, to be announced the next day, is predicted to have increased by 0.2percentt, with the broader index up 0.3percentt.
Pennon put on 2.5p to 620p despite confirmation it would lose its place in the leading index, to be replaced by TUI Travel, down 0.8p to 286.1p.
Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America and Alcoa will all be removed from the 30-strong index, to be replaced by Goldman Sachs, Visa and Nike.
Impetus-PEF hopes its new youth jobs index, to be updated annually, will give a wider picture of youth unemployment and keep the government focused on helping the most disengaged young people, even as headline employment statistics improve.
Towards the end of the trial, Edis decided the jurors needed an electronic index to be installed on a computer in the jury room to help them find their way through the avalanche of paperwork which had descended on them.
Economists say the decline, which could be foreshadowed in a widely followed government price index to be released this week, will probably be modest — from 1percentto2percentcent — but could continue in 2008 and 2009.
Next year's index, to be published in April, will take us to 2011 and see a cut of 5% in Arts Council and 28% in local government funding in England.
