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ECB Pricing A Touch Firmer On The Day

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Hope surrounding Chinese property stimulus, firmer Chinese equities and FOMC-dated OIS pricing/U.S. Tsys consolidating a little off Thursday’s dovish extremes leaves ECB-dated OIS pricing flat to ~5bp firmer on the day, with a modest steepening bias evident on the strip.

  • Terminal deposit rate pricing sits just above 3.75%, having moved off the recent hawkish extremes on slightly more caveated ECB speak in recent days, FOMC-pricing gyrations and the sharper than expected slowdown in Eurozone CPI (which still resides comfortably above target).
  • ECB Executive Board member Panetta flagged that the ECB is not far from terminal rate levels. He went on to note that inflation remains high but stressed that tighter policy will bite more in the coming months. Panetta has always been at the dovish end of the ECB spectrum, and these comments didn’t provide much, if any, tangible market impact.
  • Both Panetta & President Lagarde have highlighted the lagged impact of monetary policy within the last 24 hours.
  • More recently, Bank of Ireland Governor Makhlouf tipped his hat to the likelihood of 25bp rate hikes in both June & July, although pointed to less clarity beyond that period.
  • The impending U.S. NFP print will be a key driver of direction into the weekend.
ECB Meeting€STR ECB-Dated OIS (%)Difference Vs. Current Effective €STR Rate (bp)
Jun-233.386+23.9
Jul-233.565+41.8
Sep-233.657+51.0
Oct-233.661+51.4
Dec-233.642+49.5
Jan-243.564+41.7

Source : MNI - Market News/Bloomberg

MNI London Bureau | +44 0203-865-3809 | anthony.barton@marketnews.com

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