Euro-zone inflation looks set to rise further before year-end as higher input costs continue to feed through. We agree with the ECB that the forces pushing inflation up should fade next year, and our central forecast is for headline and core inflation to end 2022 below 2%. But given the uncertainty around how long supply problems will persist, the risks are clearly skewed towards a longer-lasting overshoot of 2%.
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