{"id":431444,"date":"2026-06-04T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/switzerland-may-cpi-0-6-vs-0-8-y-y-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:40:17","slug":"switzerland-may-cpi-0-6-vs-0-8-y-y-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/switzerland-may-cpi-0-6-vs-0-8-y-y-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland May CPI +0.6% vs +0.8% y\/y expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>CPI +0.6% vs +0.8% y\/y expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.6%<\/li>\n<li>Core CPI +0.3% y\/y<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Swiss headline annual inflation holds steady at 0.6% in May, with the monthly estimate showing a 0.2% increase in prices compared to April. The slight increase on the month was largely driven by rising<br \/>\nhousing rentals and higher prices in the hotel sector, alongside higher petrol, car rental<br \/>\nand car sharing prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">As for the core estimate, there was an increase of 0.1% on the month but the annual reading remains the same as in April at 0.3%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">This indicates that while there is some increase in price pressures in the Swiss economy from higher energy prices, it isn&#8217;t enough to really change the inflation outlook all too much for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Given time, we can expect a broadening in inflation pressures in the economy. But considering the low base to begin with, it&#8217;s not likely to materially shift the conversation for the SNB. That especially with the Swiss franc continuing to keep in a firmer position as a whole. Despite the rebound since March, EUR\/CHF is still down 1.4% so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">And a stronger currency will continue to fuel deflation fears, which remain the key risk for the SNB in the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPI +0.6% vs +0.8% y\/y expected Prior +0.6% Core CPI +0.3% y\/y Prior +0.3% Swiss headline annual inflation holds steady at 0.6% in May, with the monthly estimate showing a 0.2% increase in prices compared to April. The slight increase on the month was largely driven by rising housing rentals and higher prices in 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-431444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431444","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=431444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}