Central Banks
ECB to Hold Interest Rates as Lagarde Beats Back Cut Bets
- Deposit rate seen staying at 4% for third meeting on Thursday
- Officials are converging around June to begin easing policy
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The European Central Bank is set to keep borrowing costs on hold for a third meeting while stepping up efforts to convince investors that interest-rate cuts aren’t imminent.
The deposit rate will be left at 4%, according to all economists polled by Bloomberg. How long it stays there, though, is an ever-hotter topic, with President Christine Lagarde joining many of her colleagues in signaling a summer reduction is “likely.”