The precipitous fall in oil prices and virus-related plunge in demand is likely to push euro-zone inflation to a record low of -1% in the summer. While the risk of deflation becoming entrenched seems low, we forecast core inflation to average just 0.5% this year and next – about half its level over the past decade.
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