European Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates Again as Inflation Cools

Tiger Newspress09-12

The European Central Bank on Thursday delivered a quarter-point interest rate cut, marking its second reduction to the deposit rate this year.

The widely anticipated move comes after a period of sluggish economic growth across the euro zone and cooling inflation, which fell back toward the central bank's 2% target in August.

The rate decision will be followed by a press conference at 1:45 p.m. London time.

For many market participants, the big question was not whether the ECB would cut rates in September — but whether the central bank will provide any clues as to what will follow.

Economists are split over whether policymakers at the ECB will look to pause when they meet again on Oct. 17, as they had done in July, before potentially reducing rates by another quarter-point on Dec. 12.

The ECB's meeting comes just days before the Federal Reserve appears poised to start its own rate-cutting cycle.

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  • SGREIT Champ
    09-13
    SGREIT Champ
    Tho' the fundamentals are not particularly good at Cromwell European REIT, this REIT unit price has been rising in the last 2 weeks. Rate cut effects truly 'masks' mkt movements.... till the dividend payout is filed for FY24.
  • Cosmograph
    09-12
    Cosmograph
    pause what... ECB be good little doggies and follow what your master dictates... Thank your big gangster friend across the atlantic for the inflation... it will get worse.
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