Bloomberg: ECB sources sees growing concensus of a ECB hike of 25 basis points in 3Q

Bloomberg is now reporting that ECB sources see a growing concensus of an ECB hike of 25 basis point in the 3Q.

Lagarde said that the rate launch would not start until the APP purchases were completed (which was to be sometime in the 3Q). She said that rate hikes will commence sometime after the end of APP purchases. If that would occur toward the beginning of the third quarter, a rate hike in the third quarter is absolutely possible. The market had price down to hikes by the end of the year.

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