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ECB Forward Guidance: the Devil is in the Detail

Following the changes to its forward guidance, we have revised our forecast for ECB policy rates.

Last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced a new long-term refinancing package for banks (called TLTRO-III) and made clear that interest rates would not be raised this year. While these measures were expected, they have come earlier than we thought. We were also taken aback by the extent of the downside revisions to the ECB’s inflation and growth projections and ECB President Draghi‘s overall dovishness.

We have revised our scenario accordingly and now expect a 15bp deposit rate hike in March 2020, followed by a 25bp hike in the deposit and refi rates in September 2020. The former would be a technical rate hike rather than the start of a full-blown normalisation cycle.

As for TLTRO-III, what matters above all, is what governments and other European institutions make of this opportunity to lock in cheap funding for longer. While the OECD’s call for a coordinated programme of fiscal stimulus and structural reforms looks overambitious and politically difficult to realise, the ECB’s response appears as if it believes that the euro area might be facing a form of ‘Japanisation’, for better or worse.

ECB Policy Rates, 2006 - 2019

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ECB Policy Rates, 2006 - 2019

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Frederik Ducrozet
Mr. Frederik Ducrozet is a Senior Econoist at Banque Pictet & Cie SA, Research Division. Prior to this, he served as Senior Eurozone Economist at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Research Division from June 2006 till September 2015. He joined Crédit Agricole SA in 2005. Mr. Ducrozet contributed to the various publications of the research department, with a special focus on macroeconomic developments in Eurozone countries, including on the outlook for fiscal policy and the ECB’s monetary policy. Do not hesitate to contact Pictet for an investment proposal. Please contact Zurich Office, the Geneva Office or one of 26 other offices world-wide.
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