Lagarde Q&A: Overall message from meeting was 'steady hand'

Comments from Lagarde

• The feeling at the ECB was more optimistic on growth
• We were somewhat more optimistic about the outlook than 3 months ago
• We see broadly stable financial conditions
• Looking at labor market, we see "a little bit of movement" but not much of it
• ECB to publish two scenarios for inflation outlook
• The opening statement was unanimously supported. On other items there were divergences "there were some diverging views here and there"