Vespasianus
Princeps thermarum
Possibile impatto della decisione del FOMC di domani sugli acquisti della Bce.
As European Central Bank President Mario Draghi wonders how to keep his bond-buying program going, a little help from Janet Yellen might be welcome.
The Federal Reserve Chair will lead her colleagues to a U.S. interest-rate decision on Wednesday that has implications for the ECB’s plan to ensure its own quantitative-easing program has enough assets to buy. Even if Fed policy makers don’t raise rates immediately, any sign that they’re prepared to do so this year could lift global yields -- and that’s a bonus for the ECB.
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The risk though is that disappointment will turn into nervousness and market tensions severe enough to hurt the euro-area recovery. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg see an extension of QE as inevitable, even if only to avoid an abrupt halt by gradually reducing purchases.
“If yields stay where they are and the ECB doesn’t extend QE, it would probably be able to just about finish its program,” said Michael Schubert, an economist at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. “But because nobody expects the ECB to stop purchases abruptly, with the weakest form of extension being tapering, they need to do something.”
Draghi’s Yield Troubles May Ease With a Little Help From Yellen
As European Central Bank President Mario Draghi wonders how to keep his bond-buying program going, a little help from Janet Yellen might be welcome.
The Federal Reserve Chair will lead her colleagues to a U.S. interest-rate decision on Wednesday that has implications for the ECB’s plan to ensure its own quantitative-easing program has enough assets to buy. Even if Fed policy makers don’t raise rates immediately, any sign that they’re prepared to do so this year could lift global yields -- and that’s a bonus for the ECB.
...
The risk though is that disappointment will turn into nervousness and market tensions severe enough to hurt the euro-area recovery. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg see an extension of QE as inevitable, even if only to avoid an abrupt halt by gradually reducing purchases.
“If yields stay where they are and the ECB doesn’t extend QE, it would probably be able to just about finish its program,” said Michael Schubert, an economist at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. “But because nobody expects the ECB to stop purchases abruptly, with the weakest form of extension being tapering, they need to do something.”
Draghi’s Yield Troubles May Ease With a Little Help From Yellen