In light of this week’s further rise in energy prices and damage to Qatar’s energy infrastructure we have revised our euro-zone forecasts. In our new “base case” the ECB hikes rates three times this year as headline inflation rises to a peak of 4% and core inflation trends up. GDP broadly stagnates in the middle of this year and recovers only slowly thereafter.
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