ECB minutes should be fairly straightforward affair - TDS

Research Team at TDS, suggests that April’s ECB meeting was about implementation, not new policy. Today’s ECB minutes should therefore be a fairly straightforward affair.

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“Acknowledging some pick-up in inflationary pressures since the March projections coming from higher oil prices, but really stressing that the implementation phase is only just beginning, and thus the ECB is likely to be more technocratic than reactionary in the coming months.”

France: Unemployment rate failed to drop in the Q1 - ING

Julien Manceaux, Senior Economist at ING, notes that the France’s official unemployment rate failed to come down in 2016Q1 after the first 0.1pp drop in 2015Q4.
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EUR/USD putting 1.12 to the test

The shared currency is posting marginal losses on Thursday, sending EUR/USD to test the vicinity of 1.1200 the figure.
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