Bad news.
Consumer price inflation in France has jumped.
It rose to 6.2% over one year in October, according to provisional data published this Friday by INSEE.
In comparison, this figure was 5.9% in August and 5.6% in September.
Sluggish for many years, inflation has returned to the economic landscape.
Several factors such as the post-covid restart initially explain this phenomenon.
Today, the latter is notably driven by soaring energy prices.
It reached a previous peak at 6.1% in July 2022, against 1.2% a year earlier.
If the figures remain high, France is in a better situation than the vast majority of its neighbors.
According to Eurostat, the annual inflation rate in the euro zone rose to 9.9% in September.
The highest rate recorded by the European statistics office since the start of the publication of the indicator in January 1997.
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A little earlier, the Institute of Statistics, published the development of growth in French economic activity in the third quarter.
With an increase of 0.2%, the country is experiencing a slowdown after the 0.5% gain in the spring.