The Headline Was Confirmed. Two Components Were Not. And the Hour We Said Nobody Published Was 09:00.
Eurostat confirmed euro area September inflation at 3.8 per cent annual and 0.6 monthly, and core at 2.5 per cent per one secondary reader.
The headline did not move. Two of the four components did: energy from 18.8 in the flash to 18.9 in the final, food, alcohol and tobacco from 1.4 to 1.3, each a tenth, in opposite directions. The final also publishes contributions the flash does not - energy 1.71 points, services 1.52, goods 0.29, food 0.25, summing to 3.77 - and no secondary reader we found carried any of it. Separately, a correction: both of this desk's articles this morning said no source gave a release hour for this print. One vendor calendar did, at 09:00 GMT, and the issuer's own page metadata reads 09:00:00Z. A negative claim about publication is a claim about your own sweep. Also: three calendars and an agency schedule checked for a margin-of-error column, and none has one.