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The European Central Bank’s President Christine Lagarde is set to deliver a speech Friday, 19 November, amid traders and investors’ speculations that the Eurozone central bank could lag behind Fed and world peers on rate hike decision. Meanwhile, the euro touched its lowest level in 16 months this week as …

Eurozone inflation will ease next year and there is no sign that investors or consumers expect runaway prices in the medium term, the European Central Bank’s chief economist said on Thursday.“We’re not seeing expectations de-anchoring to the upside,” Lane told an online event hosted by the U.S. Federal Reserve.“Right now …

Reiterating the ECB’s well-known stance on inflation, ECB’s de Guindos said that the current phase of higher inflation, which partly reflects an increase in energy prices and supply constraints, could last longer than expected only some months ago. Supply shortages may dampen activity while pushing up prices, adding to the …

Bitcoin’s rally weakened on Tuesday, suggesting that buyers took some profits at around the $68,500 all-time price high. Despite a short-term retreat, upward price targets are expectedfor both BTC and ETH over the next month.There is a positive sentiment that often prevail the crypto markets near every year’s end. Price …

Rate hike chances are gaining more appeal throughout financial markets for the BOE after the November meeting, given the actual inflation profile, in which there was a 95%+ chance of a 15-bps hike. The European Central Bank has made clear that it does not intend on raising rates anytime soon, but …

Isabel Schnabel said that house prices need more attention from financial stability and price stability viewpoint. Schnabel indicated that owner-occupied housing would have contributed between 0.4 and 0.5 pp to data released by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP).The member of ECB’s executive board also insisted that monetary policy …

With central banks having already said their piece, seasonal, valuation and positioning still looks favorable for the USD. On these measures, the CHF looks vulnerable to a reversal.CHF could be a major laggard in the coming weeks, yet the CHF is the most overloved currency on most positioning dashboard. It …

All expectations that tightening signals by BoC and RBA would push the world’s biggest monetary policy actors to accelerate their own timelines for rate hikes ran into a wall with the U. S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank saying they would not hike interest rates so fast.Rate futures and …

The European Central Bank (ECB) decided to leave the interest rates on the main refinancing operations, the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility unchanged at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.50%, respectively, as was widely expected.

USD/TRY leap The European Central Bank (ECB) is scheduled to announce its monetary policy decision this Thursday at 11:45 GMT, which will be followed by the post-meeting press conference at 12:30 GMT. here are the expectations as forecast by the economists and researchers of nine major banks. ING “Updating the …