'Seeping pessimism' hindering eurozone recovery: ECB official
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DOWNBEAT expectations about long-term growth prospects are weighing on the euro-area recovery, European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Peter Praet said.
"The economic environment is characterised by seeping pessimism about long-term growth," he said on Thursday in Mannheim, Germany. While a cyclical recovery "is progressively taking hold", the negative stance "holds back a stronger recovery, as uncertainty about the future can feed back into weaker investment today", he said.
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