ECB’s Nowotny: Too Early to Say We Have Reached a Turning Point

European Central Bank Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny said on Friday he was not concerned about inflation remaining well below the bank’s target until 2018, adding that the bank was allowing measures introduced earlier this year to take effect.

ECB inflation projections released on Thursday were revised upwards for 2016 to 0.2 percent from 0.1 percent, but inflation projections for 2017 and 2018 remained unchanged at 1.3 percent in 2017 and 1.6 percent in 2018.

“We will have still very low inflation this year but we think that in the next year already we will have quite a substantial pickup in inflation,” Nowotny told CNBC in an interview in Vienna. If the bank’s forecasts materialize, there will be no need for further stimulus, however, he said.

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