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Latest ECB survey sees forecasters revise lower both headline and core inflation expectations for coming years.

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Professional forecasters have revised lower both headline and ex-energy and food HICP expectations for eurozone inflation from the previous quarter, the latest ECB survey showed on Friday.

Headline inflation was expected to decline from 2.4% in 2024 to 2.0% in both 2025 and 2026, the Survey of Professional Forecasters showed. Longer-term HICP inflation expectations (for 2028) were also revised down, by 0.1 percentage point, to 2.0%. Inflation in the Eurozone stood at 2.9% in December, with core (ex-energy, food, alcohol and tobacco) inflation at 3.4%. (See MNI SOURCES: "Biggest Minority" Favours ECB June Cut)

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Professional forecasters have revised lower both headline and ex-energy and food HICP expectations for eurozone inflation from the previous quarter, the latest ECB survey showed on Friday.

Headline inflation was expected to decline from 2.4% in 2024 to 2.0% in both 2025 and 2026, the Survey of Professional Forecasters showed. Longer-term HICP inflation expectations (for 2028) were also revised down, by 0.1 percentage point, to 2.0%. Inflation in the Eurozone stood at 2.9% in December, with core (ex-energy, food, alcohol and tobacco) inflation at 3.4%. (See MNI SOURCES: "Biggest Minority" Favours ECB June Cut)

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