The Board of Directors of BCE decided today to keep the three main ones unchanged interest rates della BCE. inflation remains close to the medium-term objective of2%and the Governing Council’s assessment of the inflation outlook is broadly unchanged.
I interest rateson deposits, main refinancing operations and marginal lending operations will remain unchanged respectively at2,00%al 2,15% e al 2,40%.
Economic prospects and resilience factors
L’economy – explained the Governing Council in justifying its choice of monetary policy – has “continued to grow despite the difficult global context”. Thesolid job marketstrong private sector balance sheets and the pastinterest rate cutsby the Governing Council “important sources of resilience remain”. However, “theperspectivesremain uncertain, particularly due to ongoingglobal trade disputes e delle geopolitical tensions“.
“We have decided to leave theunchanged rates. L’economycontinues to grow, despite the difficult global context. Despite this theperspectivesremain uncertain”, observed the president of theBCE Christine Lagardein the press conference at the end of the Board of Directors. “With thecommercial agreementbetween Europe and the United States in recent months, theceasefire in Gazareached in recent weeks and the agreement just announced between the United States and China somedownside risks“have been mitigated,” he concluded.