ECB dampened the market’s speculation on rate hikes – Danske Bank
|Pernille Bomholdt Henneberg, Chief Analyst at Danske Bank, suggests that the hawkish message at the latest ECB meeting resulted in the market pricing in a 10bp deposit rate hike at the end of this year.
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“This then resulted in prominent ECB members dampening market participants’ expectations with a dovish communication that postponed the pricing of the hike to late 2018.”
“In our view, the pricing of hikes from ECB is very premature as the inflation outlook should not be strong enough to tighten the monetary policy this year. Another argument for hiking rates could be that banks were suffering after the long period of negative policy rate but it does not seem to be the case that the ECB wants to hike just to support the banking sector.”
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