Central Banks
Euro-Zone Inflation Points to Lagarde’s Unfinished Task for 2025
- Report on Tuesday may show uptick in consumer-price gains
- Region’s major economies also likely saw faster inflation
Christine Lagarde
Photographer: Liesa Johannssen/BloombergFaster euro-zone inflation in data due next week is likely to remind policymakers that while their 2% goal might now be in sight, it’s not yet within reach.
Consumer prices probably rose 2.4% in December from a year earlier, up slightly from the previous month’s result. The underlying gauge that strips out energy and other volatile items probably stayed at 2.7%, according to economists.