LONDON: Eurozone inflation surged to a record for the era of the single currency and exceeded all forecasts, adding to the European Central Bank’s (ECB) challenge before a crucial meeting this month on the future of monetary stimulus.
Consumer prices rose an annual 4.9% in November, beating all 40 predictions in a Bloomberg survey of economists, where the median was for 4.5%.
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