Oil prices hit $110 a barrel, a five-month high, while gas prices in Asia and Europe reached their highest since December 2022, raising transport, heating and packaging costs. British diesel pump prices hit £2.00 ($2.64) a litre for the first time this month, and US diesel reached a record $6.53 a gallon in September. The Reserve Bank of Australia lifted its cash rate to a 15-year high, pushing the mortgage rate on an average A$731,000 30-year loan from 5.5% to 6.2% and adding about A$3,900 ($2,742) a year to repayments. In the US, 30-year mortgage rates climbed from about 6.1% to about 7.5%, while New York heating bills could rise 47% and British household bills about 10% year on year this quarter. Packaging typically accounts for 5% to 15% of a grocery product's manufacturing cost, and the FAO expects global food inflation to accelerate and persist into 2027.
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