ECB cuts rates, more to come soon?
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What did the ECB announce about rate cuts and why is it important?
The ECB has cut rates, and Christine Lagarde says the inflationary process is on track. But what are they saying about what comes next? Australia's labor market data was better than expected. Better for those working, not so good for those expecting an early rate cut, but nonetheless, NAB has bought forward its expectations for when that next rate cut will be. And it's not going to be this year. And strong US retail sales, is that the last gasp for anyone hoping to see two rate cuts from the Fed this year. It's Friday, it's the 18th of October 2024. It's the morning call from Nab. Good morning. Well, we are a little out from the US close as we record this, but shares are still largely in the green, although they have last lost some of their oomph from earlier in the session.
The NASDAQ is up just not point two percent, the down 0.4% higher, the SP just in the green. And the Russell two thousand that was well on the in the green earlier is now naught point four percent in the red. We've got Netflix earnings to come after the close as well. Uh Coming up shortly. And shares well down in China too yesterday, uh, despite all the uh hope from the latest announcement on fiscal support out of Beijing. But obviously that's not worked. And bond yields are higher, up eight basis points for 10-year treasuries, up two across much of Europe, including Germany and the UK. The US dollar is up a quarter percent against the rising dollar, the Australian dollar is up another 0.4%, very close to.
67 US cents now. The euro is down 0.3% today, and oil has had its ups and downs. But as we record this, it's up just 0.3% for WTI and Brent. Brent around $74.40 a barrel now. So the ECB has met its cut rates. Gavin Friend joins me from uh from NAB in London. So, I mean, that not a big surprise here. That increasingly became the market expectation. reputation. But look, last time you and I spoke, you said there was a chance that they wouldn't because the market seemed to be focusing on weakness in the economy, not on inflation. Inflation was still quite sticky, but now the E C B is saying, well the disinflationary process is well on track, is though is is the word from Christine Lagarde.
Yeah, I think, Phil, to be fair, you know, over the last uh five weeks since that uh September the twelfth meeting, you know, the data has shifted. Uh we've seen Christine Legaard and a whole host of uh Governing Council uh member members coming out acknowledging lower economic growth, lower inflation, and to the to the extent that they have a inflation mandate, if if if growth is weaker and thereby gives them greater confidence. confidence that inflation will come down, then this is a case of, you know, if the facts change, I think. And so, you know, that's nobody was surprised given, you know, the well trailed uh comments from the ECB that they that that an October easing was likely. However, I would note it was an interesting
Uh interesting press conference because in the statement, you know, the ECB retained the phrase that it will keep policy um sufficiently restrictive for as long as it is required to achieve its two percent um sustainable inflation target or uh or aim. It also repeated that it will continue to judge events on a meeting by meeting be meeting basis and is not uh on a particular you know, preset path. I mean we could expect those kinds of things. But then further up in the high up in the statement, it talked about it reminded the point that we've been making to your point just then that um inflation is indeed expected to rise in the coming months. So that'll be a headline rate going back up from you know a low one point seven somewhere up towards in the mid to high twos and the core rate up up up nearly three percent.
These rises will be driven Driven by reverse base effects, rises in food and energy prices, non-energy industrial goods, and at the same time services inflation, which remains elevated at around four percent. It's been at you know four, four point one for the last five months. It actually, in numbers quite out on Wednesday, revised numbers, it dropped to three point nine.
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