{"id":436073,"date":"2026-08-12T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/italy-inflation-eases-just-a-touch-in-july-core-price-keep-steady-though-436073\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:00:24","slug":"italy-inflation-eases-just-a-touch-in-july-core-price-keep-steady-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/italy-inflation-eases-just-a-touch-in-july-core-price-keep-steady-though-436073\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy inflation eases just a touch in July, core price keep steady though"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>July final CPI +2.9% vs +2.8% y\/y prelim<\/li>\n<li>Prior +3.0%<\/li>\n<li>July final HICP +2.9% vs +2.9% y\/y prelim<\/li>\n<li>Prior +3.0%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Italy headline annual inflation is confirmed to see just a marginal drop from June to July. This comes amid a slowdown in a couple of categories, namely\u00a0unregulated energy products (from +13.3% to +11.4%), unprocessed food products (from +4.4% to +3.6%), and miscellaneous services (from +2.5% to +1.8%).<\/p>\n<p>To offset that, there was an acceleration in the price dynamics for\u00a0regulated energy products (from +9.2% to +14.8%) and transport-related services (from +1.1% to +1.6%).<\/p>\n<p>But all in all, core annual inflation is seen keeping steadier at 1.6% in July. Goods prices are seen slowing slightly to 3.2% (previously 3.3%) while services prices accelerated just a touch to 2.7% (previously 2.6%).<\/p>\n<p>The balance continues to be a tough one for the ECB, with core price pressures in the likes of France and Italy keeping in a &#8220;sweet spot&#8221; but still running hot in the likes of Germany and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>As the Middle East conflict rages on, it does present a bit of a conundrum for policymakers in perhaps needing to act again in September.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July final CPI +2.9% vs +2.8% y\/y prelim Prior +3.0% July final HICP +2.9% vs +2.9% y\/y prelim Prior +3.0% Italy headline annual inflation is confirmed to see just a marginal drop&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-436073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436073","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=436073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}