Eurozone inflation, January 2025
A person buys products at the Mercadon store in Lisbon in Portugal, January 25, 2025.
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The EU EURO zone is accelerated in January of 2.5% in January, annually, they showed on Monday that the Eurostat statistics data.
Economists surveyed by Reuters expected that the January inflation printing would reach 2.4%, unchanged from December.
The title inflation in the Euro zone in September reached the lowest 1.7%, but since then it has re -appeared because the basic effects of lower energy prices have faded. AND European Central Bank Last week, he said that disinflation was “on the right track”.
“Inflation continued to develop widely in accordance with the projections of the staff and should return to the medium -sized goal of the Governing Council this year,” the bank added. “Most of the basic inflation measures suggest that the inflation will settle around the goal on a permanent basis.”
ECB reduced interest rates on Thursday by 25 base points, which scored a key deposit rate to 2.75%. Further reduction of the rate is expected from the ECB throughout the year.
Data on Monday come after several key eurozone economies, including France and Germany, reported last week about its latest consumer prices index data. The annual rate reached 1.8% in France and 2.8% u GermanyAccording to the preliminary data of the Statistics Agency in the country. The figures are aligned in the euro zone for comparability.
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