{"id":31120,"date":"2026-03-31T09:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/euro-zone-inflation-falls-2-5-short-of-ecb-target\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:19:20","slug":"euro-zone-inflation-falls-2-5-short-of-ecb-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/euro-zone-inflation-falls-2-5-short-of-ecb-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro zone inflation falls 2.5% short of ECB target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108244582\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>French cheeses on display in a store in Paris. <\/p>\n<p>Bertrand Gu\u00e9 | AFP | getty images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Inflation in the euro zone rose to 2.5% in March, according to the latest preliminary data from Eurostat on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Eurozone inflation was above 1.9% in February and well ahead of the European Central Bank&#8217;s 2% target.<\/p>\n<p>The rise largely reflects a sharp surge in energy prices since the US and Israel launched military operations against Iran in late February. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a reading of 2.6%.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story, please check for further updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\">Choose CNBC as your favorite source on Google and never miss a moment of the most trusted name in business news.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French cheeses on display in a store in Paris. Bertrand Gu\u00e9 | AFP | getty images Inflation in the euro zone rose to 2.5% in March, according to the latest preliminary data from Eurostat on Tuesday. Eurozone inflation was above 1.9% in February and well ahead of the European Central Bank&#8217;s 2% target. The rise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4037,6028,1202,2408,1889,510,852],"class_list":{"0":"post-31120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-ecb","9":"tag-euro","10":"tag-falls","11":"tag-inflation","12":"tag-short","13":"tag-target","14":"tag-zone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31123,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120\/revisions\/31123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}