Draghi comments after the ECB decision to leave rates unchanged

  • Very favourable financial conditions still needed
  • Domestic price pressures remain muted and have yet to show signs of a convincing upward trend
  • Ample degree of stimulus still needed for inflation
  • Strong growth momentum signals inflation will pick up
  • Better growth outlook increases the ECB's confidence that inflation will converge on target
  • Headline inflation likely to slow in coming months, mainly due to base effects
  • Inflation will then pick up

QE guidance was unchanged. One notable change was that there is a "significant reduction in economic slack" that's a change from "gradual reduction" in October.