Dismally drifting towards deflation as credit creation is a long and distant thing of the past in the European Union, this morning’s decision to hold rates unchanged leaves a lot of “whatever it takes” hope left for the press conference. Whether he will ease lending standards, cut haircuts, enable more securitization, push direct lending (there’s no demand!), or “promise” open-ended QE – it’s all on the table but we suspect it will be more talk and “whatever” he is doing so far is working… stocks are near record highs and bond yields record lows – which must mean Europe is fixed…
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1ifcAHs Tyler Durden