Inflation & Prices
Euro-Zone Crawl Toward 2% Inflation Keeps ECB in Rate-Hike Mode
- Consumer-price data for May will be released on Thursday
- Officials are penciling in more increases in borrowing costs
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Euro-zone inflation data next week will probably show frustratingly slow progress toward the European Central Bank’s 2% target, keeping officials focused on the need for more interest-rate hikes.
Consumer prices rose 6.3% in May from a year earlier, according to the median of 35 forecasts in a Bloomberg survey. That’s down from 7% in April. Economists’ estimates for an underlying measure that strips out volatile elements such as energy point to a little-changed outcome of 5.5%.