Given the shift in Mr Draghi’s language at today’s press conference, we think that in June the ECB will remove the reference to “lower” interest rates from its forward guidance. While this would end the loosening bias, any policy tightening is still a long way off. We think that the Bank will taper its asset purchases to zero in the first half of 2018, and keep interest rates unchanged until 2019.
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