{"id":420145,"date":"2025-03-03T11:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/03\/febbraio-inflazione-calo-bce-tagli-tassi\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:02:51","slug":"eurozone-inflation-slows-to-2-4-percent-in-february-ecb-considers-more-rate-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/03\/eurozone-inflation-slows-to-2-4-percent-in-february-ecb-considers-more-rate-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone inflation slows to 2.4 percent in February; ECB considers more rate cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –\u00a0Good news:\u00a0In February, inflation<\/strong> stopped rising and even decelerated. It is slight, of course, by 0.1 percentage points, but just enough to bring the index to 2.4 percent compared to January’s values (2.5 percent)<\/strong>. Preliminary estimates from Eurostat note a slowdown in energy (0.2 percent, compared to 1.9 percent in January) and services (3.7 percent, compared to 3.9 percent in January), offset by higher food prices (2.7 percent, compared to 2.3 percent in the previous month).<\/p>\n

However, the trend reversal exists, and inflation is approaching the 2 percent European Central Bank benchmark target again. The ECB\u00a0will meet in Frankfurt on Thursday (March 6) to decide on\u00a0monetary policy, and in that sense, what is coming from the European Statistical Office may indeed be good news for households and businesses.<\/p>\n

The ECB, which bases its decisions on available data, will also rely on February’s preliminary inflation estimates for interest rate choices. Analysts and observers expect a new cut\u00a0of 0.25 percentage points, which could be the last. On the easing of monetary policies and the need to do so, the Governing Council<\/a> appears less and less united and, on the contrary, increasingly reluctant to reduce the cost of borrowing money. However, Frankfurt is now more concerned with anemic European growth than inflation,\u00a0as European Central Bank Vice President Luis De Guindos admitted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preliminary data from Eurostat show a reduction from January. Estimates that will certainly be used on March 6 by the Eurotower’s Governing Council for its monetary policy decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":420142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25727],"tags":[28172,26112,26151,26105,25828,26107,26153],"class_list":["post-420145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-bce-en","tag-bank-central-en-en","tag-dati-eurostat-en","tag-eurozone-en","tag-inflation-en","tag-tassi-di-interesse-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420175,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420145\/revisions\/420175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}