Draghi's 'Adequate' Stimulus Plan Seen Just Enough for Inflation

  • Majority of economists say policy makers won't ease further
  • Inflation will get back to 2% goal before Draghi retires

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank.

Photographer: Martin Leissl/Bloomberg
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Mario Draghi’s message is starting to sink in.

After the European Central Bank president labeled a package of fresh stimulus an “adequate” response to increasing downside inflation risks, 60 percent of economists in a Bloomberg surveyBloomberg Terminal said he won’t have to announce further measures. Eighty-five percent of those polled said Draghi will bring price growth back in line with the ECB’s goal of just under 2 percent before his term ends in October 2019.