One More for '24: ECB Delivers Another Rate Cut
PGIM Fixed Income's Deputy Head of Global Economics, Katharine Neiss, PhD, reacts to the European Central Bank's (ECB) December Monetary Policy Meeting, which saw the Bank cut its main policy rate by 25 bps to 3.0% and maintained its plans to shrink the balance sheet. Despite weak growth prospects in the region, President Lagarde emphasized that addressing structural growth issues is not the central bank's responsibility, indicating no need for aggressive rate cuts to support growth. While this suggests that the ECB may be nearing the end of its easing cycle, current projections call for 100 basis points of additional cuts in 2025.