Having announced last month that asset purchases will end in December, the ECB is unlikely to make any policy changes at its July meeting. We doubt that President Draghi will offer more explicit forward guidance than to reiterate that interest rates will be on hold “through the summer of 2019”. But the continued weakness of core inflation supports our view that rate hikes will not be justified before next September.
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