Due to the Christmas break, the minutes of the ECB’s December meeting are only released one week ahead of the next meeting. Who needs yesterday’s stories, you might ask yourself. Well, when it comes to the ECB, we simply read everything and the just-released minutes of the December meeting still have some interesting insights for next week’s meeting. Here are the main highlights from the December minutes Growing concern regarding the economic outlook. The minutes show that some ECB members “argued that the December staff projections for growth in the near term might be too optimistic overall”, pointing to recent soft ... (full story)