{"id":29018,"date":"2025-09-21T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:15:25","slug":"eurozone-inflation-comes-in-softer-than-expected-in-august-at-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29018\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone inflation comes in softer than expected in August, at 2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            17\/09\/2025 &#8211; 12:14 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Annual inflation in the eurozone was 2.0% this August, Eurostat announced on Wednesday, updating its earlier estimate of 2.1%.<\/p>\n<p>The figure was stable month to month, as June and July also saw price pressures at 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the main components of inflation, food, alcohol &amp; tobacco had the highest annual rate in August, recorded at 3.2%, compared with 3.3% in July.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by services (3.1%, compared with 3.2% in July), non-energy industrial goods (0.8%, stable compared with July) and energy (-2.0%, compared with -2.4% in July).<\/p>\n<p>The 2% figure is in line with the inflation target from the European Central Bank, and the new data comes after the ECB chose to keep interest rates steady last week.<\/p>\n<p>The bank held its key rate on the deposit facility at 2%, its lowest level in more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the post-meeting press conference in Frankfurt, Lagarde stated that the \u201cdisinflationary process is over\u201d and said that the eurozone is \u201cin a good place\u201d. She cited a resilient labour market, a stable inflation outlook and upwardly revised growth projections for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Lagarde nonetheless stressed that the ECB is \u201cnot on a predetermined path\u201d and future policy moves will depend on economic data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 17\/09\/2025 &#8211; 12:14 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Annual inflation in the eurozone was 2.0% this August, Eurostat announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,11156,3154,9575,184,25149,25148,85,932,46],"class_list":["post-29018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-christine-lagarde","tag-cost-of-living","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-eurozone","tag-food-inflation","tag-il","tag-inflation","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}