{"id":402667,"date":"2026-04-17T02:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402667\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:24:52","slug":"euro-zone-inflation-in-march-revised-up-to-2-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402667\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro zone inflation in March revised up to 2.6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Euro zone inflation leapt to 2.6% in March on the back of surging energy prices caused by the war in the Middle East, revised figures from the EU&#8217;s statistics agency showed today. <\/p>\n<p>The new figure &#8211; up from an initial estimate of 2.5% &#8211; means inflation in the single currency area reached its highest since July 2024, and was above the European Central Bank&#8217;s 2% target. <\/p>\n<p>The outbreak of the US-Israeli war against Iran has sent oil and gas prices soaring, a major burden for the euro zone as it relies on energy imports, and economists have downgraded their growth forecasts for the region. <\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices in March jumped up from 1.9% in February. <\/p>\n<p>Analysts have raised their bets on the ECB hiking interest rates as soon as this month to keep inflation in check. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Euro zone inflation leapt to 2.6% in March on the back of surging energy prices caused by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-402667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}