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Euro-zone HICP (May 2025)

May’s steep decline in services inflation, to its lowest level in more than three years, confirms that the previous month’s jump was just an Easter-related blip and that the downward trend in services inflation remains on track. We expect inflation to fall further in the coming months, leaving the headline rate comfortably below 2% in the second half of the year.

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