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Eurostat previously estimated inflation at 0.1 percent last
month in the 19 countries sharing the euro. The monthly consumer
price change was -0.1 percent, slightly higher than the expected
-0.2 percent.
The revision came because the inflation rate for unprocessed
food and for services both ticked up by 0.1 percentage point.
The main factor behind the modest increase in inflation as a
whole was the lessening influence of weak energy prices. They
were down 7.3 percent year-on-year in November after falling 8.5
percent in October. Month-on-month they were unchanged.
Core inflation - which excludes the most volatile components of
unprocessed food and energy - was lower than in October, at 0.9
percent year-on-year, in line with the flash estimate, and was
minus 0.2 percent on a monthly basis.
Despite the small rise in inflation, euro area prices remain
subdued, keeping pressure high on the European Central Bank that
has unveiled new policy measures to fight low inflation on Dec.
3.
The greatest price increase was for unprocessed food which rose
2.7 percent, albeit compared to a 3.2 percent rise in October.
Inflation in the services sector, the biggest of the euro zone
economy, was 1.2 percent in November, slightly lower than the
1.3 percent rise recorded in October.
(Reporting by Francesco Guarascio; editing by Philip Blenkinsop)
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