{"id":427897,"date":"2026-03-04T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/switzerland-february-cpi-0-1-vs-0-1-y-y-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:40:20","slug":"switzerland-february-cpi-0-1-vs-0-1-y-y-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/switzerland-february-cpi-0-1-vs-0-1-y-y-expected-427897\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland February CPI +0.1% vs -0.1% y\/y expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +0.1%<\/li>\n<li>Core CPI +0.4% y\/y<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Headline annual inflation remains unchanged and continues to border on deflation territory. The bad news for the SNB is that core annual inflation is seen trickling lower to 0.4%. For some context, core annual inflation was still hovering at 0.9% in February 2025. It&#8217;s a slow descend but one that continues to threaten a return to deflation for the Swiss economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The bright side is that the US-Iran conflict might help to push up price pressures a little, even if temporary. However, it&#8217;s a double-edged sword as the SNB has to deal with a much stronger Swiss franc amid heightened geopolitical tensions. And they&#8217;re already having to step into the market this week it would seem <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/forex\/swiss-franc-tumbles-after-snb-warning-earlier-20260302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Despite that, EUR\/CHF is tracking back lower and down 0.2% again to 0.9058 currently. All eyes will be on the 0.9000 level to see what the SNB intervention appetite would be like in the days\/weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +0.1% Core CPI +0.4% y\/y Prior +0.5% Headline annual inflation remains unchanged and continues to border on deflation territory. The bad news for the SNB is that core annual inflation is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}