{"id":430017,"date":"2026-04-30T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/italy-april-preliminary-cpi-2-8-vs-2-6-y-y-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:41:00","slug":"italy-april-preliminary-cpi-2-8-vs-2-6-y-y-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/italy-april-preliminary-cpi-2-8-vs-2-6-y-y-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy April preliminary CPI +2.8% vs +2.6% y\/y expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +1.7%<\/li>\n<li>HICP +2.9% vs +2.5% y\/y expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +1.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Headline annual inflation continues to run up as a result of surging energy prices and that is the case across every country at the moment. Of note, there is a sharp rise in the prices of unregulated energy products (+9.9%) and regulated energy products (+5.7%) as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">When looking at core annual inflation though, that is seen slowing from 1.9% in March to 1.6% in April. So, that&#8217;s one bright spot for now. But as higher energy prices continue to be more sticky, expect that to have a more profound impact on core prices down the road. That especially if the Middle East conflict continues to drag on for longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">In any case, the overall Eurozone reading <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/eurozone-april-preliminary-cpi-30-vs-29-yy-expected-20260430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">here<\/a> is the more pertinent report to focus on at this time.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +1.7% HICP +2.9% vs +2.5% y\/y expected Prior +1.6% Headline annual inflation continues to run up as a result of surging energy prices and that is the case across every country at the moment. Of note, there is a sharp rise in the prices of unregulated energy products (+9.9%) and regulated energy products (+5.7%) [&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-430017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430017","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=430017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}