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ECB prioritising inflation fight

Investors have taken today’s 50bp rate hike by the ECB as dovish, and the peak deposit rate now priced into markets is between 3% and 3.25%. We think the risks are skewed towards rates going higher than this and the economy performing much worse than consensus forecasts imply.

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