Pressure on public health services has continued to build, prompting some governments to extend their Covid restrictions until late March. Meanwhile, higher inflation and bond yields will make the ECB’s job next week more challenging. The Bank will again try to clarify how it determines whether financing conditions are sufficiently favourable. And we suspect that it will step up its bond purchases in the coming weeks - though this is far from guaranteed.
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