{"id":432147,"date":"2026-06-15T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/german-wholesale-prices-ease-slightly-in-may-due-to-energy-tax-reduction\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:00:21","slug":"german-wholesale-prices-ease-slightly-in-may-due-to-energy-tax-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/german-wholesale-prices-ease-slightly-in-may-due-to-energy-tax-reduction-432147\/","title":{"rendered":"German wholesale prices ease slightly in May due to energy tax reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Wholesale price index -0.6% m\/m<\/li>\n<li>Prior +2.0%<\/li>\n<li>Wholesale price index +5.9% y\/y<\/li>\n<li>Prior +6.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The monthly drop comes with a bit of a caveat as it reflects the reduction in the energy tax rate on petroleum products (-7.3%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">But when compared to the same month a year ago, wholesale prices remain significantly higher still. That is in large part to do with the price increase for petroleum products, which were on average 30.5% higher than in May 2025 (despite the monthly decline).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Besides that, the price in the wholesale trade of non-ferrous ores, metals, and semi-finished metal products were also down 0.4% on the month. But also compared to the same month last year, they were much higher by 36.1%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">As such, the annual estimate still reflects a considerable increase in wholesale prices relative to a year ago. And that is primarily due to the hostilities in the Middle East, which led to a rise in energy products and raw materials in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wholesale price index -0.6% m\/m Prior +2.0% Wholesale price index +5.9% y\/y Prior +6.3% The monthly drop comes with a bit of a caveat as it reflects the reduction in the energy&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-432147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432147","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=432147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}