{"id":427122,"date":"2025-05-19T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/19\/eurostat-inflazione-aprile-bce-tassi\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:51:10","slug":"eurostat-confirms-april-inflation-data-ecb-on-track-for-new-rate-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/19\/eurostat-confirms-april-inflation-data-ecb-on-track-for-new-rate-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurostat confirms April inflation data; ECB on track for new rate cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – No surprises: In April, inflation in the euro area was at\u00a02.2 percent<\/strong>, stable compared to March, as already forecasted<\/a>. Eurostat publishes the final data, which should be read carefully. The inflation level mainly reflects a\u00a0decline in energy costs (-3.6 percent, down from -1 percent in March), while the other main items — ‘services’ and ‘general food’ — rose\u00a0(+0.5 percentage points and +0.1 percentage points, respectively), while ‘non-energy industrial goods’ remains stable.<\/p>\n

The figure, however, confirms a general level of inflation close to the ECB<\/strong>\u00a0reference\u00a0target of\u00a02 percent. The European Central Bank is expected to cut rates again<\/a> at the Governing Council meeting scheduled for\u00a0June 5<\/strong>. In deciding, the Eurotower board may also consider\u00a0the\u00a0scenarios produced by the European Commission’s Spring Economic Forecast that points to a return of inflation to the ECB target<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Analysts expect an eventual adjustment in line with those seen\u00a0so far, thus a 0.25 percentage point cut<\/strong>. There is an intention to ease rates, but not at a sustained pace. Therefore, the ECB would opt for a data-driven approach and time-by-time decision-making, as repeatedly stated, but cautious. The uncertainties generated by the risk of trade wars and\u00a0US\u00a0tariffs,\u00a0which\u00a0disturb the Frankfurt institution,\u00a0<\/a>also dictate choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Index stable at 2.2 percent, close to European Central Bank’s reference target. Analysts expect another -0.25 percentage point rate cut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":240276,"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],"tags":[28172,26112,26105,25828,26107,26153],"class_list":["post-427122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bce-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\/427122","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=427122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427140,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427122\/revisions\/427140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}