{"id":435184,"date":"2026-07-31T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/italy-july-preliminary-cpi-2-8-vs-2-8-y-y-expected-435184\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:11:45","slug":"italy-july-preliminary-cpi-2-8-vs-2-8-y-y-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/italy-july-preliminary-cpi-2-8-vs-2-8-y-y-expected-435184\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy July preliminary CPI +2.8% vs +2.8% y\/y expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 20px; padding: 0 0 0 19px; font-family: Inter, InterFallback, serif; list-style: outside; text-indent: -3px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0; white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 4px; padding: 0\">Prior +3.0%<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 4px; padding: 0\">HICP +2.9% vs +2.8% y\/y expected<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 4px; padding: 0\">Prior +3.0%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s preliminary inflation data for July ticked slightly higher. According to the preliminary estimate, Italy&#8217;s headline CPI rose 2.8% year-on-year in July, matching market expectations and slowing from the previous 3.0% pace. The harmonized measure of inflation (HICP), which is used by the ECB to compare price developments across the euro area, increased 2.9% year-on-year, slightly above the 2.8% consensus forecast but down from the prior 3.0% reading.<\/p>\n<p>From a broader perspective, the data is unlikely to materially alter expectations for ECB policy, especially after the Eurozone Core CPI Y\/Y beat expectations coming at 2.5% vs 2.4% expected. This will keep expectations for a rate hike in September alive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +3.0% HICP +2.9% vs +2.8% y\/y expected Prior +3.0% Italy&#8217;s preliminary inflation data for July ticked slightly higher. According to the preliminary estimate, Italy&#8217;s headline CPI rose 2.8% year-on-year in July,&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-435184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435184","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=435184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}