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European Central Bank meets with third rate cut of the year expected
Markets pricing two more rate cuts by end of the year
Financial markets have fully priced in two more 25-basis-point interest rate cuts from the ECB this year, expected to take place on Thursday and at the central bank’s next monetary policy meeting in December.
That would take the deposit facility — the ECB’s key rate — from 4% in June to 3% by the end of 2024.
The ECB was one of the first major central banks to cut rates when it lowered by a quarter-percentage-point in June. The U.S. Federal Reserve did not join it on the path of monetary easing until September, when it cut its own key rate by a half-percentage point.
— Jenni Reid
Lack of ECB guidance is supporting euro against U.S. dollar, Goldman economist says
The euro is being shielded from sharper losses against the U.S. dollar — despite more robust economic growth in the U.S. — in part because the European Central Bank is not giving strong guidance on its future path, Goldman Sachs’ Chief Europe Economist Jari Stehn told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Thursday.
“The ECB is cutting, but is cutting in a very data-dependent fashion, without giving you an awful lot of guidance about where you’re headed next. And we think that’s very much going to be the message also today,” Stehn said.
“So we’ll get the 25-basis-point cut, we think they will say we’re doing this in response to weaker data.”
The euro has been choppy against the greenback throughout this year, starting out at $1.1044 and falling to $1.0853 as of Thursday.
Stehn also told CNBC that caution around prospects for the euro zone economy was warranted.
“The incoming data has been weak, we obviously have various challenges, from trade to fiscal to the manufacturing sector. We have cut our forecast a couple of times through the summer, we basically have growth of 1% over the next year, which is below what the ECB has,” he said.
“Now, that said we still think we’re growing. So we’re not saying we’re going into recession, we’re not saying we’re totally stagnating.”
— Jenni Reid
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