The national HICP data for May suggest that euro-zone headline inflation edged up from 3.0% in April to 3.1%. If oil and natural gas prices remain around current levels or fall back, energy inflation will already have peaked. But the pass-through of higher energy costs will push up food inflation, and to a lesser extent the core rate, in the second half of the year.
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