Q3’s impressive 0.8% rise in German GDP suggests that growth this year and next will be slightly stronger than even our above consensus forecasts had implied. This may well increase the pressure from Germany for monetary policy to be normalised more quickly. But with inflation still subdued, the ECB seems set to buy assets throughout next year and to keep interest rates on hold until well into 2019.
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