ECB keeps its finger off the trigger

The lack of a further step-up in the ECB’s anti-inflation rhetoric today supports our view that the Bank is unlikely to tighten policy in the near future. Nonetheless, its generally hawkish stance, and the effects of this on the euro exchange rate, represent another unwelcome threat to the region.

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