The continued strength of services inflation means ECB policymakers will feel in no hurry to slash interest rates, but we still think the deposit rate will fall from 3.0% currently to 1.5% in Q3. Meanwhile, the recent rise in euro-zone government bond yields has been fairly indiscriminate, but we think that French and Italian spreads will widen this year.
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