Eurozone inflation stable, eases pressure on ECB

By Juergen Baetz

Published February 28, 2014 12:29pm ET

Eurozone inflation stable, eases pressure on ECB — Carolina Salazar Fernandez, 23 years old, right, accompanied by a housing rights activist, left, looks at the police arriving to evict her in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Carolina Salazar Fernandez, is a single mother of two children: Jesus, 3 years old, and Abraham, 6 years old. Her only income it is a state benefit of 530 euros ($ 723). She has occupied an empty foreclosed apartment owned by SAREB bank in February 2013. She tries to negotiate to pay a low protected rent, since her income it is not enough to rent an apartment and support the family at the same time. The eviction was finally postponed with the help of housing rights' activists. SAREB, called "bad bank", is a bank who receives toxic assets produced by Spanish lenders after the country's property market collapse in 2008. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) | Andres Kudacki

BRUSSELS (AP) — The inflation rate in the 18-country eurozone held steady in February, against analysts’ expectations of a further slide that would have put more pressure on the European Central Bank to ease monetary policy.

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