Eurozone flash CPI arrives at 1.4% y/y in March, misses estimates

According to Eurostat’s flash reading of Eurozone CPI report, the annual reading came in at 1.4% in March, missing expectations of 1.5% and 1.5% previous. Meanwhile, the core figures eased to 0.8% in the reported month when compared to 0.9% expectations and 1.0% previous.

Key Details (via Eurostat):

“Looking at the main components of euro area inflation, energy is expected to have the highest annual rate in March (5.3%, compared with 3.6% in February), followed by food, alcohol & tobacco (1.8%, compared with 2.3% in February), services (1.1%, compared with 1.4% in February) and non-energy industrial goods (0.2%, compared with 0.4% in February).”

The Eurozone inflation report comes a couple of days after the German Prelim CPI data was released, which showed that the German consumer price inflation disappointed in March, although remained in line with the European Central Bank’s (ECB) rate target of just under 2 percent for the Eurozone as a whole.