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Posted on July 29, 2025
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Add as preferred source on GoogleEuro zone consumers lowered inflation expectations, suggesting stabilization of price growth. ECB survey shows expectations near 2% target.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone consumers reduced their inflation expectations for the next year in June, supporting indications that the most recent episode of runaway price growth is over, a survey from the European Central Bank showed on Tuesday.
The ECB halved interest rates to 2% from 4% over the past 13 months but kept borrowing costs steady this month, on the premise that inflation is now back at it 2% target and would remain there over the medium term.
Consumers' median expectation for inflation over the next 12 months fell to 2.6% in June from 2.8% a month earlier, while expectations for three years ahead were steady at 2.4% and five years out were unchanged at 2.1%, the ECB's survey of 19,000 adults showed.
Although consumer bets are not always the best gauge of actual price trends, the ECB places great emphasis on expectations and closely watches an array of indicators, since they could impact wage setting, which then influences prices.
Consumers' expectations for nominal income growth over the next 12 months was steady at 1.0% last month, with higher income individuals lowering their expectations and lower income groups raising them, the ECB said.
(Reporting by Balazs KoranyiEditing by Bernadette Baum)
The ECB survey indicated that Euro zone consumers reduced their inflation expectations for the next year in June, with the median expectation falling to 2.6% from 2.8%.
The ECB halved interest rates to 2% from 4% over the past 13 months but kept borrowing costs steady this month, believing inflation is back at its 2% target.
Consumers' expectations for nominal income growth over the next 12 months remained steady at 1.0%, with higher income individuals lowering their expectations and lower income groups raising them.
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