{"id":425337,"date":"2026-01-20T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425337\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:19:15","slug":"german-producer-prices-post-another-annual-average-decline-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425337\/","title":{"rendered":"German producer prices post another annual average decline in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">German producer prices saw an average annual decline of 1.2% in 2025, once again exhibiting a decline for a second year running. However, there is a caveat to that figure with it being a case largely owing to a steep decline in energy prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Of note, energy prices showed a drop of 6.2% compared to the previous year. The breakdown shows that natural gas distribution was 8.3% cheaper on average in 2025 than in 2024, electricity 7.5% cheaper, and petroleum products 5.5% cheaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">If you strip out energy price developments, German producer prices were actually up by 1.2% instead in 2025 compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">The more detailed breakdown elsewhere shows intermediate goods were on average 0.3% cheaper in 2025 than in 2024. Meanwhile, the prices for capital goods were on average 1.9% higher, with consumer goods on average 2.7% more expensive in 2025 compared to the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">The story here is somewhat similar to what we&#8217;ve seen with Germany&#8217;s consumer price index progression. That being headline annual inflation reflecting a decline that is seen nudging closer to the pivotal 2% mark. However, core annual inflation is still keeping more stubborn and holding above the 2% threshold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">The latter continues to be a thorn in the side of the ECB, preventing the central bank from following through on easing monetary policy further since the closing stages of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German producer prices saw an average annual decline of 1.2% in 2025, once again exhibiting a decline for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-425337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}