Oil prices might eventually feed into core inflation, ECB's Nowotny says

Core inflation in the euro zone has not increased significantly but a rise in energy prices might eventually drag it upwards, European Central Bank Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny said on Tuesday. "Headline inflation is increasing quite substantially but core inflation not very much, so it is for the time being at least mainly due to the effects of rising oil prices, energy prices," Nowotny told a Euromoney conference in Vienna. "Rising oil prices at the end of the day may feed through in