The German nationwide inflation figure was released today at 14.00 CET, and despite headline CPI surprising a tad dovish compared to consensus of 0.2% MoM, we had the right lean on overall price pressures with rates markets clearly viewing the report as hawkish news with the longer end of the yield curve selling off. In general regional figures showed a slight dovish surprise in headline terms, which is de facto the mandate of the ECB, but core prices and key components of the HICP basket were not a pleasant surprise for policymakers, which will likely weigh on the rhetoric from ECB in their June meeting. 

Notably we saw a slight hawkish surprise in the HICP figure compared to CPI, as the categories recreation and culture and restaurants and hotels weigh relatively more in HICP compared to CPI, while food prices weigh less.

Chart 1: Headline surprise dovishly, but core makes it tricky