{"id":25223,"date":"2025-10-31T20:22:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/10\/31\/euro-zone-inflation-eases-a-touch-in-october\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:22:50","slug":"euro-zone-inflation-eases-a-touch-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/10\/31\/euro-zone-inflation-eases-a-touch-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro zone inflation eases a touch in October"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Euro zone inflation slowed a touch in October and continued to hover near the European Central Bank’s 2% target, confirming the bank’s message that the economy remains on the relatively benign path it projected earlier.<\/p>\n

Inflation in the 20 nations sharing the euro currency slowed to 2.1% from 2.2% in September, in line with economists’ forecasts in a Reuters poll, as quicker services price growth was offset by lower energy costs, figures from Eurostat showed today.<\/p>\n

A closely-watched figure on underlying inflation, which excludes volatile food and fuel prices, meanwhile held steady at 2.4%, defying expectations for a slowdown, as services inflation picked up to 3.4% from 3.2%, offsetting a drop in industrial goods inflation.<\/p>\n

The ECB held interest rates steady on Thursday, arguing that inflation was on target and some of the worst risks related to economic growth had declined, keeping the bloc on a path for acceptable, if unspectacular, growth.<\/p>\n

The ECB sees inflation dipping below 2% next year before a rise back to target in 2027, an outlook that was supported on Friday by a separate ECB survey, which is often a key input into policy deliberations.<\/p>\n

This relatively healthy inflation outlook is a key reason why economists think the ECB is done cutting interest rates and financial markets only see a 40% chance of one last cut by the middle of next year.<\/p>\n

The bank has already lowered rates by a combined 2 percentage points in the year to June and given long lags in policy transmission, this is still filtering through to the real economy.<\/p>\n

Still, some policymakers argue that risks are skewed towards inflation going too low. They say that prices will dip below 2% early next year on statistical base effects and this could change firms’ price expectations, making low inflation self-fulfilling.<\/p>\n

But others say that the economy has performed better than feared and a raft of surveys, including the ECB’s own poll of companies, is pointing to improved activity.<\/p>\n

This improvement should alleviate some of the fears about the economy and limit downside risks to inflation, they argue.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Euro zone inflation slowed a touch in October and continued to hover near the European Central Bank’s 2% target, confirming the bank’s message that the economy remains on the relatively benign path it projected earlier. Inflation in the 20 nations sharing the euro currency slowed to 2.1% from 2.2% in September, in line with economists’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}