It’s official: the ECB held its deposit rate at 2.25% today, exactly as markets expected. 📌 No surprises on the number, but the tone told the real story.
🛢️ Energy still runs the show. Lagarde confirmed the ECB is watching geopolitical risk to energy markets closely, not committing to any path. She’s sticking to a meeting by meeting, fully data dependent approach, refusing to pre commit on September. That’s a deliberate hedge: the Middle East oil shock hasn’t gone away, it’s just paused for now.
🎯 September is where the real decision sits. July was a non projection meeting, so there was no fresh forecast to justify a move either way. Markets are already pricing around 23 basis points of a hike for September 10, when new inflation and growth projections land. That’s the meeting to watch, not this one.
⚖️ EUR/USD slipped after the decision. The pair has pulled back to around $1.138, down from the pre-decision $1.14 range. With no clear hawkish surprise from Lagarde, the dollar side of the ledger is winning for now. All eyes shift to the Fed’s July 29 decision, just six days out.
🔍 Bottom line: today was a placeholder, not a pivot. The ECB bought itself six more weeks to see whether energy prices force its hand in September.
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