{"id":441395,"date":"2026-05-23T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441395\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:26:10","slug":"portugal-records-one-of-the-sharpest-inflation-rises-in-the-eurozone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441395\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Records One of the Sharpest Inflation Rises in the Eurozone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prices in Portugal rose by 1.9% during the month, well above the Eurozone average monthly increase of 1%. Among countries using the euro, only Malta and Cyprus recorded steeper rises.<\/p>\n<p>The increase comes amid renewed pressure on energy and fuel prices, with ongoing tensions involving Iran contributing to volatility in international markets.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal\u2019s inflation rise was also significantly higher than that recorded in larger European economies such as Germany, where monthly inflation increased by 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>On an annual basis, inflation in Portugal climbed from 2.7% in March to 3.3% in April. Across the Eurozone, annual inflation rose from 2.6% to 3%.<\/p>\n<p>The figures suggest Portuguese households and businesses faced stronger price pressures than many other countries in the single currency area during April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prices in Portugal rose by 1.9% during the month, well above the Eurozone average monthly increase of 1%.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-441395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}