Inflation & Prices
Gas Rollercoaster Throws Europe’s Inflation Outlook Wide Open
- Easing energy costs may reverse prices pressures this year
- Recession in the bloc looks increasingly likely to be avoided
Communal lights on within a block of apartments in Hamburg, Germany
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Cratering natural-gas prices thanks to warm winter weather are raising the odds that the euro zone’s inflation scourge will ease sooner than anticipated.