The continued depreciation of the euro exchange rate points to much-needed increases in export growth and imported inflation in the coming months. But this does not eliminate the risk of deflation and the ECB will remain under pressure to implement full-blown quantitative easing. Indeed, as QE is already at least partly priced in, failure to act could lead the currency to reverse some of its decline.
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