Looking at today’s main event, the much anticipated ECB announcement in which Draghi may (or may not) announce a hawkish shift to the cental bank’s policies and/or reveal the bank’s tapering plans, Citi (whose titled we borrowed) gives the 30 second summary, and says that the market seems quite split on whether the ECB will remove the asset purchase program easing bias, but thinks that there’s room for mild disappointment. After all, it says, this meeting is just a warm up for the September meeting (and Jackson Hole). CitiFX Strategist Josh O’Byrne points out that the biggest market fear at the moment appears to be long positioning and “this risks morphing into FOMO for the next leg higher.” For the press conference, Citi expects Draghi to slightly tweak some of the language from Sintra to lean a little bit more towards the dovish side.
The bank’s expectations are summarized in the following handy cheat sheet:
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 20, 2017.
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