Eurozone inflation rises to 2.9% in December

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Eurozone inflation rose to 2.9 per cent in December, reversing six months of consecutive falls and raising questions over how soon the European Central Bank would start cutting interest rates.

The annual rise of consumer prices in the 20 countries that share the euro in December was up from a more than two-year low of…