Ireland's finance ministry last week revised down its inflation estimate for 2023 to 4.9% and forecast a figure of 2.5% next year. It forecast core inflation of 4.4% for this year and 3.2% for 2024, while warning that this number could be "more problematic". (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Messaging: padraic.halpin.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) (Corrects story to show core inflation was 5.3% in April, not
11.9%, after statistics office amended their statement)
DUBLIN, April 28 (Reuters) - Annual Irish inflation
eased again in April to 6.3% from 7% in March, while core
inflation also slowed, to 5.3%, a flash estimate of the
EU-standard Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) showed.
The Irish HICP excluding energy and unprocessed food, known
by economists as core inflation and seen as a better gauge of
the underlying trend, rose 5.3% year-on-year compared to 6.2% a
month earlier, Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) said.
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