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Eurozone inflation falls below 2% target

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Last updated: 2024/10/01 at 10:52 AM
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The eurozone’s annual inflation rate fell to its lowest level in three-and-a-half years in September, official data showed Tuesday, dropping below the European Central Bank’s two-per cent target and fuelling expectations of a rate cut.

Year-on-year consumer price increases in the single currency area slowed to 1.8 per cent in September, down from 2.2 per cent in August, thanks to falling energy costs.

The rate for the 20-country eurozone was the lowest since April 2021 and beat predictions of 1.9 per cent by analysts surveyed by financial data firm FactSet.

But core inflation, which strips out volatile energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices and is a key indicator for the ECB, cooled slightly to 2.7 per cent in September from 2.8 per cent in August, the EU’s official statistics agency said.

The central bank’s chief Christine Lagarde said on Monday that rate-setters would take the new data on inflation “into account in our next monetary policy meeting in October”.

The Frankfurt-based body has already cut borrowing costs twice in recent months, and Tuesday’s data will raise hopes for another cut at the next meeting on October 17.

That is a marked change from economists’ expectations earlier this year when many experts predicted the next cut would come in December.

The latest figures “should be sufficient to persuade the ECB to cut rates in October, even though services inflation remained high”, said Franziska Palmas, senior Europe economist at Capital Economics research group.

The slowdown in inflation comes after energy prices fell sharply by 6.0 per cent in September, compared with a drop of 3.0 per cent in August, Eurostat data showed.

– ‘Timely’ return to target –

Lagarde cautioned against assuming the period ahead would be smooth sailing, and said “inflation might temporarily increase in the fourth quarter of this year as previous sharp falls in energy prices drop out of the annual rates”.

But she told a European Parliament hearing Monday that “the latest developments strengthen our confidence that inflation will return to target in a timely manner”.

In its latest forecasts, the ECB said it expected inflation in the eurozone to return to a stable two per cent by the end of 2025.

Services inflation, accelerating in recent months, slowed to 4.0 per cent in September, down from 4.1 per cent in August.

But food and drinks prices ticked up slightly, by 2.4 per cent in September compared with 2.3 per cent in August.

In September, consumer price increases fell below two per cent in the European Union’s two biggest economies, Germany and France, reaching 1.8 and 1.5 per cent respectively.

Ireland registered the lowest inflation rate in September across the eurozone, at 0.2 per cent, the data showed.

AFP



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