London — It’s hard playing a worldwide reflation trade when consumer prices have yet to stop falling.
Later this week the eurozone is set to record the joint longest period of headline monthly deflation since the single currency was introduced — joining Japan and Switzerland in a pandemic-driven bout of falling prices that will pressure the European Central Bank (ECB) to keep its foot to the floor on monetary policy even as markets bet on recovery...
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