While ECB President Draghi was upbeat about the economy at today’s press conference, he stated that the desire of some Governing Council members to signal an end to asset purchases is far from a consensus view. With the inflation outlook still reliant on policy support, we expect the Bank to keep buying assets for the whole of next year and we doubt that interest rates will rise before September 2019.
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