Most Room for BOE, ECB to Become Less Hawkish if Mideast Conflict Ends -- Market Talk

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0519 GMT - A "peace trade" in context of the Middle East, has to do with inflation and central banks, Macquarie's Thierry Wizman and Gareth Berry say in a note. Those central banks that have been the most vocal hawks in the face of higher oil prices would revert to their pre-war outlooks in a peace and low oil price scenario, the strategists say. "In our view, there is the most room for the Bank of England (and maybe the European Central Bank) to revert back to their pre-war stances exactly because they became so much more hawkish upon the start of the U.S.-Iran war," they say. There is thus room for those policy rate outlooks to become much less 'hawkish', they say. (emese.bartha@wsj.com)

 

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