{"id":4585,"date":"2016-09-15T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T11:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oradeo.com\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2016-09-15T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T11:46:36","slug":"inflation-remains-at-1-6-in-the-euro-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oradeo.com\/2016\/09\/15\/inflation-remains-at-1-6-in-the-euro-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation remains at 1.6% in the euro area"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bloomberg.com<\/em>\u00a0–\u00a031\/07\/13<\/em> After their last policy meeting, the ECB\u2019s President Mario Draghi pledged to keep interest rates low for an extended period during a time of low inflation, weak credit flows and a subdued economic outlook. According to their forecasts in June, the ECB are expecting that the euro-area\u2019s economy will contract by 0.6% in 2013 but are forecasting economic growth of 1.1% in 2014.\u00a0Read More<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bloomberg.com\u00a0–\u00a031\/07\/13 The European Union statistics office announced on Wednesday that the annual inflation rate for the euro area was 1.6% in July 2013, the same figure that was recorded the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe European Union statistics office announced on Wednesday that the annual inflation rate for the euro area was 1.6% in July 2013, the same figure that was recorded the month previous. As a result of the inflation rate holding steady for two months, the European Central Bank has been given the leeway to loosen their monetary policy on the euro-area\u2019s 17-nation countries. July is the sixth straight month that the inflation rate has been below the ECB\u2019s 2% ceiling, much in line with what the majority of economists have forecast.<\/p>\n