{"id":576388,"date":"2026-07-31T01:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:12:22","slug":"inflation-eases-to-3-1-in-july-flash-estimate-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576388\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation eases to 3.1% in July, flash estimate shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of inflation eased to 3.1% in July from 3.2% a month earlier, a flash estimate of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices from the Central Statistics Office shows today.<\/p>\n<p>But core inflation, which excludes energy and unprocessed food, climbed to 2.9% from 2.6% a month earlier, the CSO figures show.<\/p>\n<p>The CSO said that energy prices are estimated to have decreased by 1.7% in the month and have gone up by 6.5% over the 12 months to July 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Food prices are estimated to have gone up by 0.3% in the last month and increased by 0.8% in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Eurostat will publish flash estimates of inflation for the euro zone for July tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The CSO said the flash estimates are subject to revision when the final HICP results are published next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rate of inflation eased to 3.1% in July from 3.2% a month earlier, a flash estimate of&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":["post-576388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576388","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=576388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576388\/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=576388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}