German Sept inflation back to zero – data

FRANKFURT: Consumer prices in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, did not rise in September, data showed on Tuesday, raising pressure on the European Central Bank (ECB) to prevent the wider euro area from slipping into a dangerous cycle of falling prices.

Germany’s national inflation yardstick, the consumer price index, showed zero change this month, after rising by a meager 0.2 percent the previous month, the federal statistics office Destatis said.