July 23, 2024 12:43 GMT
ECB Not Currently Concerned About Core Goods Re-acceleration (2/2)
EUROZONE DATA
The July ECB meeting once again highlighted domestic price pressures (largely services) as the key source of upside risks to the inflation outlook.
- The (small) upward revisions to 2024/2025 Eurozone headline and core inflation forecasts in the June projection round included “only negligible impacts from geopolitical tensions in the Middle East (including disruption to Red Sea shipping) on goods inflation, consistent with shipping costs being a small share of total goods costs”.
- However, should core goods disinflation eventually stall and potentially start re-accelerating, the magnitude of disinflation required in other components (i.e. services) to achieve the 2% target increases.
- If services inflation remains sticky around 4% Y/Y and core goods inflation begins to re-accelerate in the coming months, this may pressure the ECB to make further upward inflation revisions in future projection rounds.
- This may also put upward pressure on EUR inflation swaps, which currently trade below the 2% target at 1- and 2-year ahead horizons.
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