{"id":431168,"date":"2026-05-29T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/germany-may-preliminary-cpi-2-6-vs-2-9-y-y-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:00:07","slug":"germany-may-preliminary-cpi-2-6-vs-2-9-y-y-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/germany-may-preliminary-cpi-2-6-vs-2-9-y-y-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany May preliminary CPI +2.6% vs +2.9% y\/y expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +2.9%<\/li>\n<li>HICP +2.7% vs +2.8% y\/y expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +2.9%<\/li>\n<li>Core CPI Y\/Y +2.5% vs +2.3% prior<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/bavaria-may-cpi-26-vs-29-yy-prior-20260529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">German states inflation readings<\/a> released earlier in the day were much lower than the prior month, so a notable miss on the national measure was expected. The German Core CPI Y\/Y rose to 2.5% from 2.3% prior.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s due to a pullback in energy prices but the ECB is more focused on underlying inflation pressures and the risk of second-round effects if the situation in the Strait of Hormuz persists longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the ECB is widely expected to deliver an &#8220;insurance&#8221; 25 bps rate hike in June and pause at least until September to see how the data and the US-Iran situation evolves over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +2.9% HICP +2.7% vs +2.8% y\/y expected Prior +2.9% Core CPI Y\/Y +2.5% vs +2.3% prior The German states inflation readings released earlier in the day were much lower than the prior month, so a notable miss on the national measure was expected. The German Core CPI Y\/Y rose to 2.5% from 2.3% prior. [&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-431168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431168","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=431168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}