It is still very early days in assessing the effects of the latest Covid variant, but we suspect that Omicron has the capacity to cause a new decline in economic activity in the coming months but that it will probably have a relatively small impact on inflation. Meanwhile, the variant means the ECB is even more likely to maintain some flexibility around its asset purchases beyond next March.
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