Main image: Height: Rate of inflation Width: Weight within the index Source: Coutts & Co, October 2019
Luxury lifestyle prices are rising twice as fast as mainstream consumer inflation
Coutts bank's measure of luxury price inflation has risen by 4.7% a year since 2016; twice the rate of the mainstream Consumer Prices Index
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