The euro zone probably endured a second month of double-digit inflation in November, according to analyst forecasts before crucial data awaited by European Central Bank officials.
While the overall pace of consumer-price increases is likely to have slowed for the first time in 1 1/2 years, it still stayed above 10%, almost all economists predict. The median of 32 estimates in a Bloomberg survey is for an outcome of 10.4% in the report due Wednesday.