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Spectre of low inflation returns to haunt Eurozone policymakers

Weak growth and reduced price pressures could force European Central Bank to consider prolonged series of rate cuts
ECB president Christine Lagarde faces warnings that a rate cut next week could usher in a series of steeper reductions in an effort to stop inflation from persistently undershooting its target

The Eurozone’s weak economic growth and sluggish consumer price rises have raised concerns that the European Central Bank may be facing the threat of too little rather than too much inflation, economists have warned.

The prospect of a bout of reduced price rises is a sharp turnaround from recent historic levels of high inflation, which forced the ECB to push interest rates up to a record 4 per cent in September 2023.

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