The “account” of the ECB’s April meeting, released this week, revealed that policymakers had taken a pretty sanguine view of the weakness of survey indicators and hard data in the first few months of the year. Indeed, Council members believed that underlying growth momentum remained intact. However, after data released this week, the chance of a strong rebound in growth appears to have fallen.
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