{"id":700727,"date":"2026-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/?p=700727"},"modified":"2026-05-10T02:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:56:31","slug":"inflation-unexpectedly-cools-putting-rate-cut-cycle-back-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/05\/10\/inflation-unexpectedly-cools-putting-rate-cut-cycle-back-in-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation unexpectedly cools, putting rate-cut cycle back in play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>Annual urban inflation <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/04\/14\/war-pushes-egypts-inflation-higher-to-15-2-in-march-beating-expectations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eased 0.3 percentage points<\/a><\/strong><strong> to 14.9% <\/strong><strong>y-o-y in April<\/strong> \u2014 the first decline in three months and a full point below the 15.9% consensus from 14 analysts polled by Reuters, according to Capmas data. Core inflation fell 0.2 percentage points to 13.8% y-o-y, according to CBE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbe.org.eg\/ar\/news-publications\/news\/2026\/05\/06\/15\/18\/cpi-press-release-april-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>Headline m-o-m inflation decelerated 2.1 percentage points to 1.1%, with food and beverages tipping into disinflation at -0.7%. <\/strong>Core m-o-m slowed more modestly, by 0.1 percentage points to 1.1%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>The mix was uneven.<\/strong> Food and beverages rose 1.1 percentage points to 6.7% y-o-y and housing and utilities jumped 3.2 percentage points to 38.5% on the back of electricity price hikes. Pulling the headline down? Transport (a 10.2 percentage point drop to 29.2%) and health (a 7.7 percentage point decrease to 9.3%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>A step in the right direction? Sure. But we\u2019re still a long way away from meeting our <\/strong><strong>targets<\/strong>, as the central bank's 7% y-o-y (\u00b12 percentage points) inflation target for 4Q 2026 looms ever closer. Zooming out, annual inflation is still at its highest level since May of last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>Looking ahead, \u201cinflation will remain around current levels in 2Q-3Q 2026, on average, <\/strong><strong>with the CBE year-end inflation target of 5-9% looking increasingly unlikely<\/strong>,\u201d Beltone head of research Ahmed Hafez tells us. \u201cNotwithstanding this, with the currency finding some stability, the ceasefire deal still holding up, and early signs of a potential de-escalation, we are also ruling out further material price pressures,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>The central bank\u2019s Monetary Policy Committee meets on 21 May, and the calculus has shifted. After <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/04\/05\/cbe-holds-rates-as-regional-war-derails-easing-cycle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">putting rates on hold last meeting<\/a>, a hike is now less likely \u2014 and resuming the easing cycle is back in play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>ALSO FROM THE DEPT. OF UNEXPECTEDLY GOOD NEWS- <\/strong>Growth hit 5.0% in 3Q FY 2025\/26, 0.2 percentage points above original estimates and despite \u201cthe repercussions of the start of the war in March,\u201d Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Wednesday, per a cabinet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EgyptianCabinet\/posts\/pfbid036uopyAZEzcetrS5QozQKFtdkT67DJoPup7whKozJeVRXJ9yv73JURwySW42ukuESl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. He cautioned that 4Q may take a harder hit, but said full-year growth \u201cwill, God willing, be promising and higher than the previous fiscal year\u201d \u2014 which clocked 5.3% y-o-y across the first two quarters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>AND IN NOT SO POSITIVE NEWS- <\/strong>Net foreign assets contracted 22.0% m-o-m in March to USD 21.4 bn, down USD 6.0 bn from February, per <a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2026\/5\/398.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBE data (pdf)<\/a>. That breaks a 21-month appreciation streak that <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/03\/03\/new-drilling-incentives-aim-to-bridge-the-output-gap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peaked at USD 29.5 bn<\/a> in January before reversing when the war on Iran was launched in late February. \u201cThe decline in foreign assets held by commercial banks was expected post war due to capital outflows,\u201d Genena tells us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>Commercial banks are taking the hit.<\/strong> Their net foreign assets fell USD 5.9 bn (-50.5%) to USD 5.8 bn, while the CBE\u2019s own position barely moved \u2014 down USD 108 mn (-0.6%) to USD 15.5 bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first fall in the headline rate in three months came despite a consensus that the war would continue to push prices up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7206],"tags":[204,330,271,104,72,348,182,724,12581],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-700727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-banking","tag-capmas","tag-central-bank-of-egypt","tag-economy","tag-enterpriseam","tag-gdp","tag-inflation","tag-monetary-policy","tag-net-foreign-assets","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"03fabf93-e994-4636-94b7-ad9040301a1b","order":"5","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Cooler than expected","related_issue":[700719],"teaser":"The first fall in the headline rate in three months came despite a consensus that the war would continue to push prices up","photo_link":"","related_sponsor":"","voice_url":"","en_translation_ref_id":"","section_story_id":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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