{"id":1688883,"date":"2022-10-14T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688883"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:19:18","slug":"ecb-may-need-75-bps-rates-hikes-in-oct-dec-before-balance-sheet-cut-vasle-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ecb-may-need-75-bps-rates-hikes-in-oct-dec-before-balance-sheet-cut-vasle-says\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB may need 75 bps rates hikes in Oct, Dec before balance sheet cut, Vasle says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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<!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Balazs Koranyi<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2013 The European Central Bank should raise interest rates by 75 basis points at both of its upcoming meetings this year, then needs to discuss shrinking its balance sheet in 2023 as inflation is far too high, ECB policymaker Bostjan Vasle said.<\/p>\n<p>Moving slowly initially then picking up pace in recent months, the ECB has been unwinding policy support all year and lifted rates by a combined 125 basis points at its past two meetings, the fastest pace of policy tightening on record.<\/p>\n<p>Its 0.75% deposit rate is still low enough to stimulate growth, however, and needs to be jacked up to levels where it starts putting the brake on the economy, Vasle, Slovenia\u2019s central bank chief, told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven both headline and core inflation dynamics, I think we will continue with interest rates increases at our next two meetings,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that our most recent pace for hikes is also appropriate at our next two meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he meant 75 basis points, Vasle, considered a hawk on the 25-member Governing Council, said \u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The core of the problem is that inflation is now running at 10%, five times the ECB\u2019s target, and will stay above 2% through 2024, raising the risk it gets entrenched at a higher level.<\/p>\n<p>ECB policymakers have said that the first goal is to reach the \u201cneutral\u201d level for rates, where the bank is neither stimulating nor holding back growth.<\/p>\n<p>This is seen somewhere between 1.5% and 2% but Vasle said that alone will not be enough to tame inflation, even if the bloc were to suffer a recession this winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m of the opinion that we will have to go above the neutral level in order to calm inflation pressures, which are currently in the pipeline,\u201d Vasle said.<\/p>\n<p>Once the neutral rate is hit around the turn of the year, the ECB should also start discussing how to reduce its close to 9 trillion euro ($8.76 trillion) balance sheet after the bank bought nearly 5 trillion euros worth of public and private bonds.<\/p>\n<p>While it does not add more bonds to its portfolio, cash from maturing debt is still being reinvested back into the market, including in the 3.3 trillion euro Asset Purchase Programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter reaching the neutral level, I think it would be an appropriate time to start discussing options for the reversal of the Asset Purchase Programme,\u201d Vasle said.<\/p>\n<p>Such reversal is often referred to as \u201cquantitative tightening\u201d, or QT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost probably 2023 will be the appropriate time for discussion and decisions regarding the APP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, reivnvestments in a smaller Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme, set to run through 2024, should continue as planned, Vasle added.<\/p>\n<p>While an inflation peak may be close if there are no additional shocks from Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the retreat will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Balazs Koranyi WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2013 The European Central Bank should raise interest rates by 75 basis points at both of its\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"ECB may need 75 bps rates hikes in Oct, Dec before balance sheet cut, Vasle 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