Draghi Seen Keeping Cool on Stimulus Drive Amid Inflation Surge

  • Economists don’t expect change to risk assessment before June
  • Most predict start of tapering in bond-buying in 1Q next year

BAML's Martin Says Dovish Draghi Returns to ECB This Week

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A timeline for the end of European Central Bank stimulus is taking shape among economists.

Policy makers will wait until at least June before upgrading their assessment of the risks to the euro-area recovery and won’t announce another reduction in bond purchases until September, according to most respondents in a Bloomberg surveyBloomberg Terminal. Tapering quantitative easing and starting to raise interest rates will take until at least the end of next year and possibly into 2019.