As largely expected, the ECB just announced [4]that all three of its key rates remain unchanged.
At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.50%, 1.00% and 0.00% respectively.
The President of the ECB will comment on the considerations underlying these decisions at a press conference starting at 2.30 p.m. CET today.Since the announcement itself is never that exciting, attention as usual shifts to the 8:30 EDT press conference by Mario Draghi in which he will indicate, once more, just how non-existent the OMT's legal term sheet is, and thus how the European deus ex machine, the OMT, continues to be merely a jawboning-inspired mirage (even though Portugal will need it quite soon).
