German inflation slows more than expected in December

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-inflation-slows-more-than-expected-december-2026-01-06/

Posted by EnigmaticEmir

5 Comments

  1. Hooray, prices increased a bit less than economists predicted… Would be swell if there ever was a correction to the way higher inflation rates from 2021-2023 but that it increased less from there than initially thought is also great, I guess.

    Edit: Everyone always jumps to „deflation bad“. A incident related hike in inflation followed by a correction to levels it would have been without the event dont have to lead to deflation trends. And we see that too. A lot of prices hiked because of rising energy costs at the first year of the Ukraine war. Those energy prices have (for the largest part) decreased back to the pre Ukraine hike. Shipping prices fell, endconsumer prices continued to rise but slower. Thats a cash grab which could be corrected without straight jumping to deflation. On going deflation is an issue not drops on prices within a shorter time frame followed by plateauing or slower price increases.

  2. shaving_minion on

    I wonder if there’ll ever be corrections, or businesses are just happy to keep the profits