The possibility of imminent interest-rate rises worries many.
The improved rate of inflation will weaken the prospect of an imminent interest rate hike by policymakers at the Bank of England, although the figure is still double the Government's 2% target.
Buyers who had become accustomed to queueing for viewings before the outbreak of bidding wars have more recently seen asking prices falling as tighter mortgage lending, fears of an imminent interest rate rise and an increase in the number of homes for sale have put a brake on a market that many feared was turning into a bubble.
The odds of an imminent interest rate increase in China fell on Friday, as Beijing announced that industrial production grew at a slightly slower clip in June.
Unexpectedly weak job creation in the American economy in September prompted traders to dampen expectations of an imminent Federal Reserve interest rate rise and stoked fears that troubles in the global financial markets are having an impact on the US.
The reality, first, is that the deficit scolds — who are, after all, making a living by scolding — depend on constant warnings of imminent fiscal crisis to drum up interest.
The US military are also understood to have targeted a second al-Qaeda-linked militant group - the Khorasan Group - to disrupt the threat of "imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests".
Today, the interest towards 2-stroke, opposed-piston compression-ignition engines is higher than ever, after the announcement of imminent production of a 2.7L 3-cylinder light truck engine by Achates Powers.
Not suggestive of imminent harmony.
Hints of imminent government action were everywhere.
The promise of imminent destruction proved irresistible.
