Despite declining in October, the euro-zone Composite PMI suggests that the economic recovery continued at a healthy pace at the start of Q4. But growth is being driven mainly by the core economies. And with the survey indicating that inflationary pressure is rising only slowly, the ECB is unlikely to raise interest rates until 2019.
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