ECB’s Escriva: It's very unlikely that we will touch rates at the next meeting

Dhwani Mehta FXStreet

In an interview with the regional Catalan TV3 television on Friday, European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Jose Luis Escriva commented on the monetary policy outlook in the face of the ongoing Middle East conflict.

Key quotes

With the information I have, I think it's very unlikely that we will touch rates at the next meeting.

We can already take it for granted that there will be effects" from the war.

Our inflation target of 2% is a medium-term horizon, transitory movements should not necessarily lead us to make decisions. Instead, we must monitor the situation and assess to what extent this is having more persistent effects over time.

Market reaction

Despite somewhat hawkish comments from the ECB policymaker, EUR/USD is losing 0.23% on the day to trade at 1.1575, as of writing.

Euro Price Today

The table below shows the percentage change of Euro (EUR) against listed major currencies today. Euro was the weakest against the US Dollar.

	USD	EUR	GBP	JPY	CAD	AUD	NZD	CHF
USD		0.26%	0.26%	0.19%	0.02%	0.17%	0.48%	0.14%
EUR	-0.26%		-0.01%	-0.05%	-0.25%	-0.10%	0.22%	-0.13%
GBP	-0.26%	0.00%		-0.04%	-0.24%	-0.09%	0.23%	-0.11%
JPY	-0.19%	0.05%	0.04%		-0.18%	-0.03%	0.26%	-0.07%
CAD	-0.02%	0.25%	0.24%	0.18%		0.15%	0.45%	0.12%
AUD	-0.17%	0.10%	0.09%	0.03%	-0.15%		0.32%	-0.03%
NZD	-0.48%	-0.22%	-0.23%	-0.26%	-0.45%	-0.32%		-0.34%
CHF	-0.14%	0.13%	0.11%	0.07%	-0.12%	0.03%	0.34%

The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the Euro from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the US Dollar, the percentage change displayed in the box will represent EUR (base)/USD (quote).

Author

Dhwani Mehta

FXStreet

Residing in Mumbai (India), Dhwani is a Senior Analyst and Manager of the Asian session at FXStreet. She has over 10 years of experience in analyzing and covering the global financial markets, with specialization in Forex and commodities markets.

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