Economics
The ECB’s Inflation Dashboard Is Getting Trickier to Interpret
- Energy-price spike distorts measures of underlying prices
- Russia-Ukraine war is delaying reduction in monetary stimulus
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One of the European Central Bank’s inflation cues for raising interest rates is becoming harder to read, complicating the already tricky task of deciding when to tighten monetary policy amid the fallout of the war in Ukraine.