FRANKFURT—Eurozone inflation could still fall below 2 percent next year, a fresh survey published by the European Central Bank showed on Friday, just a day after the bank warned about growing consumer price pressures. The ECB kept policy unchanged on Thursday but finally acknowledged mounting inflation risks and even opened the door to an interest rate increase this year, in a turnaround for a bank that has kept policy ultra-easy for the past decade. Inflation this year is seen at 3 percent, according to the ECB’s Survey of Professional Forecasters, below the bank’s own projection for 3.2 percent. In 2023, price growth could slow to 1.8 percent, the survey showed, in line with the ECB’s own expectation. Inflation in the 19-nation currency bloc hit a record high of 5.1 percent last month, more than twice the ECB’s 2 percent target and also well above projections, indicating that the bank is …
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