Inflation & Prices
Biggest Euro-Zone Price Jump Since 2022 Seen in First G-20 Data
Shoppers visit the Chateau Rouge Exotique market in Paris.
Photographer: Anita Pouchard Serra/BloombergThe euro zone suffered the biggest inflation jump this month since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to economists assessing the fallout from war in the Middle East.
In the first batch of official data for all of March from Group-of-20 countries, consumer-price growth in the wake of the US attack on Iran is seen by forecasters to have surged by 0.7 percentage point.