ECB easing unlikely to ease peripheral fiscal concerns

The dovish tone at today’s ECB monetary policy meeting supports our view that the ECB will cut by 25bp at the December meeting. However, the risks to our policy rate forecasts are increasingly skewed to the downside. What’s more, we doubt that the easing cycle will ease financial conditions for euro-zone’ heavily-indebted countries.  

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