At next week’s monetary policy meeting, the Governing Council of the ECB will have little option but to acknowledge that the downside risks to its forecasts have increased further since it last met in December. Having tweaked its forward guidance only last month, we doubt that it will make another change at this stage. But in the coming months, we think it will do so, in order to try to push back the expected timing of the first rate hike even further.
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