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Tide gradually turning at the ECB

Today’s ECB policy statement and press conference suggest that policymakers are increasingly confident of meeting their inflation goal and increasingly conscious of downside risks to the economy. We think the outlook is weaker than the Bank believes and forecast that it will cut the deposit rate to 1.5% next year.

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