Rassegna delle aspettative per la riunione del 10 marzo. La maggioranza sembra predire un aumento di 10 mld degli acquisti mensili e un'estensione di 3-6 mesi del programma.
• Goldman Sachs sees an
increase of 10 billion euros in the volume of monthly purchases to 70 billion euros, Schumacher says. The bank also expects an announcement of a tiered rate system for reserves, even as the new system will probably become effective only at a later stage, he adds.
• JPMorgan sees a
10-billion-euro increase in the monthly pace of QE purchases to 70 billion euros, a
three-month extension of QE to mid-2017 and
two additional TLTROs during the second half of 2016, according to Fuzesi. The ECB will probably also announce another six-month extension of the QE program as early as June, taking it through to end of 2017, Fuzesi adds.
• BNP Paribas expects the monthly run-rate of
asset purchases to rise by 10 billion euros, accompanied by a further extension of the reference date
to September 2017, Wattret says, adding that a longer-term liquidity provision to banks could also be announced.
• Citigroup sees
up to 15 billion euros of extra of public-sector purchases per month, Menuet says, adding some adjustments to liquidity operations are also likely.
• The ECB will probably extend QE by
six months and increase monthly purchases by 10 billion euros, and the latter will be an effort to surprise markets positively,
Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Vamvakidis says. An expansion of TLTROs is also likely, to make them more attractive to banks, he adds.
• ABN Amro expects a
10-billion-euro increase in monthly asset purchases and an extension of the program
to June 2017, Kounis says. The deposit-rate floor will probably be removed for asset purchases, and a tiered deposit-rate system and even longer-duration refi loans are also likely, he adds.
• Credit Suisse expects the ECB to extend the liquidity provision with additional LTRO-type measures, and increase monthly asset purchases by
up to 20 billion euros, analysts including Foley say. The latter would be a strong policy decision, they add.
• Economists at
RBC Capital Markets including Cathal Kennedy see
no change to the size and duration of the QE program at this month’s meeting. However, they expect the first indications that the composition might be changing further and see a good chance of an introduction of an extra-long term refinancing operation as a first step toward more credit easing.
• The ECB will probably drop the yield floor for the asset-purchase program, while expanding issuer limits, according to
HSBC economists Balboni and Ward. They
don’t expect the ECB to increase monthly QE purchases, and see a substantial downward revision of CPI to 0.4 percent.
• Morgan Stanley expects an
additional 20 billion euros of asset purchases per month, economist Bartsch says.
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