Speaking in The Hague

  • Staff projections are conditional on the full implementation of all our mon pol measures

  • Downside risks have further diminished

  • It's too early to declare a success

  • Mol pol measures always have side effects

  • It's too early to declare a success as underlying inflation pressures continue to remain subdued, and have yet to show a convincing upward trend

  • Maintaining current view of a substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed

  • We do not currently see compelling evidence of overstretched asset prices

  • We do see that real estate dynamics or high household debt levels in some countries signal the risk of increasing imbalances

While I get the rest of the headers, as expected, and as is usual for these sorts of appearances, he's basically reading a rejigged opening statement from the ECB meeting.

There will be some Q&A so we might get something there.

The euro has had a little flip flop as the algo grabbed headlines we already knew.