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Updated Dec 6, 2012 10:00:00 AM
The UK’s Bank of England and the European central bank both kept rates on hold today and didn’t adopt any new policy measures, which had been expected by the market. As we mentioned in our ECB/ BOE preview webinar earlier this morning the biggest market moving event was the ECB staff projections for growth and inflation that were also released today. These forecasts were as bad, if not slightly worse than expected. The ECB
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Updated Dec 6, 2012 4:00:00 AM
The outcome of the last ECB meeting of the year will be known on Thursday 6th December at 1245 GMT/ 0745 ET. The market expects no change in interest rates and no new policy measures to be announced. ECB President Draghi will deliver his monthly press conference after the rate decision at 1330GMT/ 0830 ET. The Bank is likely to remain in wait-and-see mode and we expect Draghi to reiterate that the ECB is
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Updated Apr 4, 2012 6:00:00 AM
ECB preview The next ECB meeting will take place on Wednesday 4 April 2012. Interest rates will be announced at 1245BST/ 0745ET, which will be followed by a press conference at 1330BST/ 0830 ET held by ECB President Mario Draghi. This meeting is taking place one day earlier than normal because of the Easter holiday. We agree with consensus in anticipating that rates will remain unchanged at a historically low 1%. Since rates are
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Updated Feb 8, 2012 3:45:00 PM
February BOE and ECB Meetings Summary Outlook: On Thursday, Feb. 9 at 0700ET/1200GMT the Bank of England is set to announce its policy decision, followed at 0745ET/1245GMT by the European Central Bank’s interest rate decision and the 0830ET/1330GMT ECB press briefing. Below is our outlook for those events. BOE Outlook: The BOE’s MPC is unanimously expected to hold interest rates steady at 0.5%, according to Bloomberg surveys of analysts and our own view. The MPC
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Updated Jan 11, 2012 4:05:00 PM
ECB Interest Rate Decision Summary Outlook: On Thursday, January 12 at 0745ET/1245GMT the ECB is expected to hold rates steady at 1.00%, according to Bloomberg surveys. However, we think there is a slightly less than even chance they cut rates by a further 25 bps to 0.75%, a record low for the benchmark refinance rate. If they do, markets are likely to react quite negatively on the EUR, both on the surprise factor and on
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Updated Jun 8, 2011 3:55:00 PM
Research Note: June ECB and BOE Meetings Summary Outlook: On Thursday, June 9, at 0700EDT/1100GMT the Bank of England is unanimously expected to hold rates steady at 0.50% and make no change to its asset purchase program, according to a Bloomberg survey of market analysts. Typically, when no changes are made to BOE policy, no statement is issued, and so we would expect the BOE decision to be uneventful. At 0745EDT/1145GMT the ECB is also
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