Today’s ECB press conference made us more confident that tapering will come next year. An announcement of the policy now seems most likely to come in October, rather than at the next meeting in September as we had previously assumed. But we still think that purchases will end in the first half of 2018, and we continue to think that interest rates will remain unchanged until 2019.
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