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EZ Retail Sales (Nov.) Final HICP and ESI (Dec.)

The fall in inflation and improvement in economic sentiment in December suggest that the euro-zone’s case of stagflation is not quite as acute as feared a few months ago. Nonetheless, a technical recession is still likely and we expect the ECB to raise its key policy rate to 3% in the coming months.

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