inflation

Spain CPI

Inflation confirmed at 4.1% in April, core inflation falls to 6.6% (vs. 7.5% previously)

Bankinter: April CPI (final) confirms +4.1% year-on-year preliminary announcement from +3.3% in March. In month-on-month terms it remains at +0.6% m/m preliminary (from +0.4% previously). The groups most affecting the monthly rise are Footwear and Clothing, Accommodation and Leisure Services. While Housing declined due to lower gas and electricity prices. Core CPI also remains at a preliminary +6.6% year-on-year and from +7.5% year-on-year previously. Annual CPI rateGeneral and core rate….


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Philip Lane (ECB) says still “plenty of momentum in food prices”

Link Securities | European Central Bank (ECB) chief economist, Ireland’s Philip Lane, said in a recent speech that there is still plenty of momentum in food prices and core inflation. He also noted that real wages have fallen as inflation has outpaced wages in recent years, but that he believes real wages will recover in the coming years. In this regard, Lane said that he sees wage inflation peaking this…


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Eurozone preliminary April CPI rises to 7% from 6.9%, core falls to 5.6% vs. 5.7% previously

Link Securities | Eurostat published on Tuesday that, according to the preliminary estimate of the data, the Eurozone consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.7% in the month of April compared to March. In the year-on-year rate, the Eurozone CPI rose in April, also according to the preliminary reading of the index, by 7.0% compared to 6.9% in March, which was expected by the analysts’ consensus. In April energy prices rose…


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Prices rebound, inflation up to 4.1% in April, but underlying down to 6.6%

CdM : Prices rose again across the board in April. After the falls of recent months, inflation rose in the fourth month of the year to 4.1%, which is six tenths above the previous month and eight tenths higher than a year ago (it had not risen so much in one month since May 2022), according to the leading indicator of the National Statistics Institute (INE). The underlying rate, however,…


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Spain’s 7.5% core inflation shows cost increases still being passed on to rest of economy

Bankinter : The March final CPI figure confirms the preliminary 3.3%, up from 6.0% year-on-year in February. The month-on-month figure also confirms the preliminary 0.4% (from +0.9% m/m previously). The underlying rate confirms the preliminary year-on-year figure of 7.5% (vs +7.6% year-on-year previously). Annual CPI rate: general and core, percentage Analysis: The moderation of the general data in March is based on the decline in electricity and fuel prices. Despite…


Spain USA relations

Mild recession in the United States this year

Santander | It is one of the first headlines from last night’s FOMC minutes. Fed staff members go from assigning a near 50% probability, to now forecasting a mild recession. With the Fed also nearing the end of the cycle, it is no surprise that some dissenting voices are beginning to appear, opening the door to new bouts of volatility that have not favoured the credit market (MOVE/Main correlation of…


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Market discounts further moderation in US headline CPI but indicates rebound in underlying

Renta 4 : European stock markets open almost flat (Eurostoxx futures -0.2%, S&P futures 0%), on a day in which the main reference will be the US March inflation data (2:30pm). The market expects further moderation in headline CPI (5.1%e vs 6% year-on-year), but a rebound in core CPI (5.6%e vs 5.5% previously) after five consecutive months of decline from a peak of 6.6%. We will see its impact on…


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Eurozone inflation expectations for next 12 months fall to 4.6% in February

Link Securities | Bloomberg reported on Thursday that, according to the ECB’s monthly survey, inflation expectations for the next 12 months fell to 4.6% in February from 4.9% in January. In addition, inflation expectations for the next three years fell to 2.4% from 2.5% the previous month. In addition, according to the survey, economic growth expectations for the next 12 months continued to rise, from -1.2% to -0.9%. Meanwhile, 12-month…


Europa

Eurozone annual inflation drops to 6.9% in March

CoM | Annual inflation in the eurozone will be 6.9% in March 2023, down from 8.5% in February, according to a preliminary estimate by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Regarding the main components of eurozone inflation, food, alcohol and tobacco, they are expected to record the highest annual rate in March (15.4%, up from 15.0% in February), followed by non-energy industrial goods (6.6%, up from 6.8% in…


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March inflation in Spain down to 3.3% but underlying hits all-time high of 7.5%

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.4% in March compared to the previous month and cut its year-on-year rate by more than 2.5 points to 3.3%, its lowest value since August 2021, according to advanced data published on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).This moderation in the year-on-year growth rate of the CPI places inflation at its lowest level since August 2021, when a rate of 3.3% was…