{"id":432035,"date":"2026-06-12T14:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/french-inflation-accelerates-in-may-as-services-inflation-push-up\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:40:29","slug":"french-inflation-accelerates-in-may-as-services-inflation-push-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/french-inflation-accelerates-in-may-as-services-inflation-push-up\/","title":{"rendered":"French inflation accelerates in May as services inflation push up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>CPI +2.4% vs +2.4% y\/y prelim<\/li>\n<li>Prior +2.2%<\/li>\n<li>HICP +2.8% vs +2.8% y\/y prelim<\/li>\n<li>Prior +2.5%<\/li>\n<li>Core CPI +1.5% y\/y<\/li>\n<li>Prior +1.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">French inflation is seen picking up in May as we also see a broadening in price pressures in general. Headline annual inflation reaffirms a further increase in price pressures, with the acceleration in energy prices remaining the main culprit (+16.6%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">That being said, there was also a jump in services inflation (+2.1% compared to +1.8% in April). And that stickiness remains a problem, outweighing the slight decline in food price inflation (+1.1% compared to +1.2% in April).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Even on the monthly core estimate, services inflation was up by 0.4% while food price inflation was down by 0.1%. At the balance, that saw core prices move up by 0.3% on the month and 1.5% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The latter points to a further pick up in core inflation pressures, which indicate a wider breadth in terms of the increase in prices in the French economy. And that&#8217;s not a good sign ahead of the summer months as the Middle East conflict continues to drag on.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPI +2.4% vs +2.4% y\/y prelim Prior +2.2% HICP +2.8% vs +2.8% y\/y prelim Prior +2.5% Core CPI +1.5% y\/y Prior +1.2% French inflation is seen picking up in May as we also see a broadening in price pressures in general. Headline annual inflation reaffirms a further increase in price pressures, with the acceleration in [&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-432035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432035","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=432035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}