QOver in Europe, Germany’s Preliminary HICP rates for May are set to be released later on today. The current expectations by economists are for the preliminary HICP rate to accelerate to 2.7%, from 2.4%. In such a scenario, it may be implied that inflationary pressures remain persistent in one of Europe’s largest economies. Thus, potentially…
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QECB Villeroy according to Reuters, stated yesterday that a rate cut by the ECB has significant room for rate cuts, with the first possibly occurring in their June meeting. The comments made by the policymaker could be interpreted as dovish in nature and thus, should the ECB ease its monetary policy stance during their meeting…
According to various media outlets, ECB Chief Economist Lane stated in an interview that was released earlier on today, he stated that the bank can move downwards “within the zone of restrictiveness”, when referring to interest rates. The comments made by ECB Chief Economist Lane , could imply that the bank may soon begin to…
The release of the US retail sales for February is expected to showcase the resilience of the average US consumer as it is expected to escape negative territory and accelerate to 0.8% month on month. Similarly, also the core rate is expected to accelerate from -0.6% to 0.5%, also escaping negative territory, thus implying that…