While today’s Draghi press conference is expected to be rather contentious, nobody was expecting much if anything from the actual quantitative rates announcement. Sure enough, that’s precisely what the ECB delivered when moments ago it announced it would keep all three rates unchanged, with the Deposit Facility rate continuing its trek through NIRP land at -0.20%.
At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.05%, 0.30% and -0.20% respectively.
The President of the ECB will comment on the considerations underlying these decisions at a press conference starting at 2.30 p.m. CET today.
Next up: the press conference in 45 minutes.
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1vOeGPE Tyler Durden