Investing.com - Euro zone inflation slowed in October, coming in below expectations and edging slightly further away from the European Central Bank's target, according to flash estimates released by Eurostat on Tuesday.
The European Union's statistics office said the preliminary reading showed that the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in October, down from 1.5% in September.
Economists had expected an inflation to remain steady at 1.5%.
The ECB targets inflation of close to, but just below, 2%.
Core inflation, which excludes energy and food prices and is closely watched by the ECB, rose by an annualized 0.9%, down from 1.1% in September.
Economists had forecast an unchanged reading of 1.1%.
At the same time another report by Eurostat showed that the unemployment rate in the euro zone fell to 8.9% in September from 9.0% the previous month. It was the lowest reading since early 2009.