{"id":428670,"date":"2026-03-18T17:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/eurozone-february-final-cpi-1-9-vs-1-9-y-y-prelim\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:27:21","slug":"eurozone-february-final-cpi-1-9-vs-1-9-y-y-prelim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/eurozone-february-final-cpi-1-9-vs-1-9-y-y-prelim-428670\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone February final CPI +1.9% vs +1.9% y\/y prelim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +1.7%<\/li>\n<li>Core CPI +2.4% vs +2.4% y\/y prelim<\/li>\n<li>Prior +2.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">No changes to the initial estimates with the country breakdown seen below. The main sticking point remains services inflation, which is seen at 3.4% in February. That is up slightly from 3.2% in January, reaffirming more stubborn price pressures in general. Food price inflation was also elevated at 2.5% and has been keeping thereabouts since October last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The mix of the two is what is still keeping the ECB very much guarded, even before the latest energy price (natural gas especially) surge in Europe amid the US-Iran conflict. The latest development has now even tilted the balance of the scales in favour of a rate hike for later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">For now, the ECB is still dismissing that idea somewhat but you can bet that they will have to keep their options open. That especially not to repeat the same &#8220;transitory&#8221; mistake that they did back in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +1.7% Core CPI +2.4% vs +2.4% y\/y prelim Prior +2.2% No changes to the initial estimates with the country breakdown seen below. The main sticking point remains services inflation, which 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-428670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428670","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=428670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}