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The European Central Bank (ECB) have just now announced the outcome of their policy meeting decision. As expected the ECB has lowered the rates as follows- The deposit facility rate is cut to 3.50%, from 3.75%. The main refinancing rate has been lowered from 4.25% to 3.65% and the marginal lending rate has been cut to 3.9%, from 4.5%. So, in essence the gap between the refinancing rate and the deposit rate has been slashed from 0.50%, to just 0.15%. At the same time, the ECB have released their accompanying policy statement and left unchanged their inflation outlooks for the most part, but with a slight upward revision in the core matrix. The ECB have confirmed they will not pre-commit to a rate path and take a meeting by meeting approach. At the same time the ECB have lower their outlook for growth and that has seemingly hampered any potential immediate rebound in the EUR/USD. It is currently trading at 1.1015
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