FXStreet (Edinburgh) – The research team at BBH sees the European Central Bank lowering further its already negative deposit rates at its meeting next week.
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“The ECB is focused what it sees as too slow of an improvement on inflation”.
“The market expects a deeper push into negative territory with the deposit rate (perhaps a two-tier system, which seems to us to punish German and French banks which among the largest depositors at the ECB), increased asset purchases, and a six-month extension of the purchase program”.
“Although it has been suggested that the ECB could buy sub-sovereign debt or even distressed loans, we are not convinced that an agreement on these can be hammered out. However, the ECB could increase the agencies that qualify”.
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