• Sees a very slow recovery in the eurozone
  • Second quarter GDP confirmed ECB expectations
  • PMIs ‘suggest we are in expansionary territory’
  • ECB’s baseline scenario is an optimistic one
  • Chance of catastrophic scenarios drastically down

Euro traders agree as they pry 1.34 one again. Stock markets aren’t so sure.

Update:

  • German Q3 will be ‘somewhat weaker’ than Q2
  • Germany is in robust shape, without any doubt
  • Will do whatever it takes to defend euro