Dovish Lagarde speech reassures expectations of no consecutive ECB rate cuts

Soft landing ‘not guaranteed’

Eve Maddock-Jones
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The European Central Bank's president Christine Lagarde has outlined that the institution lacks the necessary data to prove that inflationary threats have passed, bolstering economists’ expectations that the Bank will not proceed with consecutive rate cuts as its next monetary policy meeting.

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