21.   Inflation accelerated in February due to a one-time rise in food prices, but the government said it remained confident inflation would fall in April and May.

22.   Inflation fell because the central bank drove interest rates to impossibly high levels that, left alone, would have crushed economic activity.

23.   Inflation has fallen, and the trade deficit has become a trade surplus.

24.   Investors are concerned that rapid economic growth will prevent inflation falling on line with the central bank target, analysts said.

25.   Longer-term bonds typically do best when inflation is falling and interest rates are expected to decline in response.

26.   New Zealand bonds are also benefiting as domestic institutions switch out of cash into fixed-interest assets on the view that inflation will fall next year.

27.   Private forecasters agree that inflation will fall, although perhaps not that fast.

28.   Regardless, Mexican inflation has fallen sharply in the past year.

29.   Stocks initially rallied after Greenspan told Congress that U.S. inflation may be falling and that the recent slide in U.S. share prices may help extend the U.S. economic expansion.

30.   The auction drove gilt prices ahead of German bunds, already buoyed by news that Western German inflation had fallen.