{"id":473592,"date":"2026-03-13T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:59:07","slug":"france-february-final-cpi-0-9-vs-1-0-y-y-prelim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473592\/","title":{"rendered":"France February final CPI +0.9% vs +1.0% y\/y prelim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +0.3%HICP +1.1% vs +1.1% y\/y prelimPrior +0.4%<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The HICP is the more important measure as that&#8217;s what the ECB targets. The final figure matches the preliminary estimate, so there&#8217;s nothing to see here.<\/p>\n<p>France HICP Y\/Y<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The data hasn&#8217;t been much of importance for the market anyway as the focus remains on the US-Iran war and the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz which is keeping oil prices elevated.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The market is pricing in two rate hikes for the ECB by year-end. In my opinion, these expectations are overblown as that would just increase the pressure on stock markets, tighten financial conditions further and exacerbate the negative impact on the broader economy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior +0.3%HICP +1.1% vs +1.1% y\/y prelimPrior +0.4% The HICP is the more important measure as that&#8217;s what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}