Eurozone inflation rose to 2.1 per cent last month, the first time it has gone above the European Central Bank’s 2 per cent target since April.
Tuesday’s flash estimate of the annual inflation figure for August was above the 2 per cent forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.
Diego Iscaro, head of European economics at S&P Global Market intelligence, said the August data was “likely to dampen down talks of a December interest rate cut” as “rates are likely to remain on hold for the rest of the year”.
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