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MNI BRIEF: Eurozone Consumer Inflation Expectations Jump

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Consumer price inflation expectations across the eurozone for the next 12 months picked up sharply in September, even as actual headline rates declined to near 2-year lows, a leading survey published Wednesday showed.

The ECB's monthly Consumer Expectations Survey showed the outlook for prices over the coming 12 months rising to 4.0% in September, up from 3.5% in August. However, the outlook for prices three years ahead was unchanged at 2.5%, the survey showed. In September, actual headline HICP inflation slowed to 4.3%, the lowest in two years. (See MNI INTERVIEW: ECB Should Hold Until At Least Spring-Vujcic)

ECB policymakers will eye the pick-up in near-term expectations nervously, but there will be some relief that the longer-term outlook for consumers remains anchored around 2.5% for now.

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