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Final Reading Confirms Broad-Based Disinflation in April

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German final April HICP was unrevised from the flash readings at +2.4% Y/Y (+2.3% Mar) and +0.6% M/M (+0.6% Mar). The final reading of CPI was also unrevised at +2.2% Y/Y (+2.2% Mar) and +0.5% M/M (+0.6% Mar). Core CPI printed at +3.0% Y/Y (+3.3% Mar), the lowest since March 2022.

  • The final major CPI components confirmed the flash estimates: goods prices printed +1.2% Y/Y (+1.0% Mar), services at +3.4% (+3.7% Mar). Overall, the data seems rather supportive of a broad disinflation narrative - note, however, that services inflation was expected to decelerate more going into the release.
  • The core rate saw disinflation in a wide range of subcategories, particularly for serivces: Healthcare printed at +2.9% Y/Y (vs +3.1% Mar), transport at +0.9% (vs +2.0%), and recreation and culture at +1.8% (vs +2.0%). Insurance was an outlier, extending its all-time high to 13.1% Y/Y (vs +11.0% Mar).
  • Looking at the categories associated with a potential Easter effect, airfares reversed their March jump, coming in at -11.0% Y/Y (vs +10.0%), while both package holidays (+2.5% vs +4.3%) and hotels (+4.5% in both March and April) showed no strong changes. While the airfares category will have pulled overall services somewhat lower, its contribution was muted as per its low 0.5% weighting in CPI.
  • On the headline front, energy continued printing in deflationary territory but ticked up significantly vs March as expected at -1.2% Y/Y (-2.5% Mar). Looking at the subcategories that weren't available in the flash reading: household energy prices came in at -3.2% Y/Y (-4.6% Mar), driven by a gas VAT increase, and petrol at +2.0% (+0.3%).
  • Food prices, which were one of the main inflation upside drivers in 2023 but cooled towards the end of the year, ended their brief deflationary trend and came in at +0.5% Y/Y (-0.7% Mar).
  • MNI's HICP inflation breadth tracker (see chart below) shows disinflation broadly progressing in April, with the percentage of categories printing at or above 6% falling to 16.2% from 18.8% in March, and the percentage of categories printing below 2% Y/Y climbing to 43.5% vs 38.7% in March.
  • Looking ahead, ECB officials are eying geopolitical risks to Eurozone inflation developments, MNI reported ('MNI SOURCES: Fed, Geopolitics, Feed ECB Caution Over Cuts', May 10). Combined with US interest rates likely remaining at their current level for longer than previously expected, the ECB rate path remains uncertain past the expected June cut.

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German final April HICP was unrevised from the flash readings at +2.4% Y/Y (+2.3% Mar) and +0.6% M/M (+0.6% Mar). The final reading of CPI was also unrevised at +2.2% Y/Y (+2.2% Mar) and +0.5% M/M (+0.6% Mar). Core CPI printed at +3.0% Y/Y (+3.3% Mar), the lowest since March 2022.

  • The final major CPI components confirmed the flash estimates: goods prices printed +1.2% Y/Y (+1.0% Mar), services at +3.4% (+3.7% Mar). Overall, the data seems rather supportive of a broad disinflation narrative - note, however, that services inflation was expected to decelerate more going into the release.
  • The core rate saw disinflation in a wide range of subcategories, particularly for serivces: Healthcare printed at +2.9% Y/Y (vs +3.1% Mar), transport at +0.9% (vs +2.0%), and recreation and culture at +1.8% (vs +2.0%). Insurance was an outlier, extending its all-time high to 13.1% Y/Y (vs +11.0% Mar).
  • Looking at the categories associated with a potential Easter effect, airfares reversed their March jump, coming in at -11.0% Y/Y (vs +10.0%), while both package holidays (+2.5% vs +4.3%) and hotels (+4.5% in both March and April) showed no strong changes. While the airfares category will have pulled overall services somewhat lower, its contribution was muted as per its low 0.5% weighting in CPI.
  • On the headline front, energy continued printing in deflationary territory but ticked up significantly vs March as expected at -1.2% Y/Y (-2.5% Mar). Looking at the subcategories that weren't available in the flash reading: household energy prices came in at -3.2% Y/Y (-4.6% Mar), driven by a gas VAT increase, and petrol at +2.0% (+0.3%).
  • Food prices, which were one of the main inflation upside drivers in 2023 but cooled towards the end of the year, ended their brief deflationary trend and came in at +0.5% Y/Y (-0.7% Mar).
  • MNI's HICP inflation breadth tracker (see chart below) shows disinflation broadly progressing in April, with the percentage of categories printing at or above 6% falling to 16.2% from 18.8% in March, and the percentage of categories printing below 2% Y/Y climbing to 43.5% vs 38.7% in March.
  • Looking ahead, ECB officials are eying geopolitical risks to Eurozone inflation developments, MNI reported ('MNI SOURCES: Fed, Geopolitics, Feed ECB Caution Over Cuts', May 10). Combined with US interest rates likely remaining at their current level for longer than previously expected, the ECB rate path remains uncertain past the expected June cut.

MNI, Destatis