{"id":44280,"date":"2026-06-02T09:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=44280"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:16:11","slug":"inflation-hits-3-2-in-the-euro-zone-as-energy-costs-climb-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=44280","title":{"rendered":"Inflation hits 3.2% in the euro zone as energy costs climb higher"},"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=\"group\">\n<p>Euro zone inflation rose to an estimated 3.2% in May, driven by surging energy prices. <\/p>\n<p>The print was in line with forecasts in a Reuters poll of economists. <\/p>\n<p>Energy costs represented the highest annual rate of inflation in May, according to the flash data, with prices rising by 10.9% \u2014 a slight rise from the euro zone&#8217;s 10.8% energy price growth recorded the previous month. <\/p>\n<p>Services inflation rose to 3.5% from 3% in April, while food, alcohol and tobacco prices cooled to 2% from 2.4% the previous month. <\/p>\n<p>Inflation rates also varied drastically between individual markets. Germany, Europe&#8217;s biggest economy, saw annual inflation fall to 2.7% in May from 2.9% in April. But Greece and Lithuania&#8217;s annual inflation rates rose above 5% last month. In France, annual inflation rose from 2.5% in April to 2.8% in May. <\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/02\/inflation-euro-zone-iran-energy-costs.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Euro zone inflation rose to an estimated 3.2% in May, driven by surging energy prices. The print was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}