{"id":430711,"date":"2026-05-20T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/euro-area-headline-inflation-confirmed-to-pick-up-further-in-april-amid-middle-east-war\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:40:20","slug":"euro-area-headline-inflation-confirmed-to-pick-up-further-in-april-amid-middle-east-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/euro-area-headline-inflation-confirmed-to-pick-up-further-in-april-amid-middle-east-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro area headline inflation confirmed to pick up further in April amid Middle East war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>CPI +3.0% vs +3.0% y\/y prelim<\/li>\n<li>Prior +2.6%<\/li>\n<li>Core CPI +2.2% vs +2.2% y\/y prelim<\/li>\n<li>Prior +2.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Services inflation continues to be the main sticking point, but is at least seen easing to 3.0% in April (previously 3.3%). Meanwhile, food price inflation is still keeping thereabouts at 2.4% (previously 2.5%). But with regards to the headline reading, energy price inflation is the main category that is bringing up prices. On a monthly basis, energy prices were up 3.0% and up 10.8% on an annual basis. On the latter, that is a marked step up from the 5.1% estimate in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">All in all, this just points to a continued uptick in headline price pressures as the US-Iran conflict drags on. And the impact of that will be more evident in broader categories as higher energy costs become more embedded into other parts of the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">With there still being no resolution to the war, expect prices to stay underpinned in Q2 and even in the early stages of Q3 at the very least.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The more detailed breakdown of the report above can be seen below:<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPI +3.0% vs +3.0% y\/y prelim Prior +2.6% Core CPI +2.2% vs +2.2% y\/y prelim Prior +2.3% Services inflation continues to be the main sticking point, but is at least seen easing to 3.0% in April (previously 3.3%). Meanwhile, food price inflation is still keeping thereabouts at 2.4% (previously 2.5%). But with regards to the [&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-430711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430711","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=430711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}