Last week, Christine Lagarde cited high wage growth and “domestic inflation” as reasons for the ECB to keep interest rates high. While domestic price pressures are easing, it will take several months for policymakers to see enough evidence that they have fallen far enough to warrant interest rate cuts. A rate cut in Q1 is possible, but we think that the ECB is more likely to wait until April.
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