{"id":435186,"date":"2026-07-31T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/ecbs-kocher-decisions-to-be-based-on-incoming-data-to-bring-inflation-back-to-the-2-target-435186\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:57:07","slug":"ecbs-kocher-decisions-to-be-based-on-incoming-data-to-bring-inflation-back-to-the-2-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/ecbs-kocher-decisions-to-be-based-on-incoming-data-to-bring-inflation-back-to-the-2-target-435186\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB&#8217;s Kocher: Decisions to be based on incoming data to bring inflation back to the 2% target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">ECB policymaker Martin Kocher reiterated the importance of maintaining a data-dependent approach to monetary policy, warning that geopolitical developments continue to pose risks to the inflation outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Kocher noted that recent weeks have demonstrated how quickly geopolitical events can affect energy prices and in turn inflation dynamics. His remarks highlight a key concern for policymakers as tensions in the Middle East continue to create uncertainty around global energy markets. <\/p>\n<p>He stressed that decisions at upcoming ECB meetings in autumn will depend on incoming economic data with the objective of bringing inflation back to the ECB&#8217;s 2% target on a sustainable basis.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Eurozone CPI report showed core inflation rising to 2.5%, slightly higher than the 2.4% forecast. Without a clear de-escalation in the Middle East and better inflation data in the next month&#8217;s report, the ECB is widely expected to deliver another 25 bps hike at the September meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECB policymaker Martin Kocher reiterated the importance of maintaining a data-dependent approach to monetary policy, warning that geopolitical developments continue to pose risks to the inflation outlook. Kocher noted that recent weeks&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-435186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435186","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=435186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}