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Traders price in 75 bps of ECB rate hikes by September

2022.06.08 11:41

Traders price in 75 bps of ECB rate hikes by September
FILE PHOTO: The European Central Bank (ECB) logo in Frankfurt, Germany, January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski//File Photo

(Corrects paragraph 9 to say spread rose above 220 bps earlier this week, not on Tuesday)

By Yoruk Bahceli

(Reuters) – Money markets ramped up their bets on European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate rises on Wednesday to price in 75 basis points (bps) of hikes by September.

With the bank largely expected to start rises in July and move in 25-bp increments, the pricing implies traders now expect its hikes to include a rare 50-bp move at a single meeting by September, compared with the October timing anticipated on Friday.

The ECB’s next policy-setting meeting will be held on Thursday.

Traders have steadily ramped up their bets on ECB hikes following a higher-than-expected euro area inflation report last week, which boosted the case for larger moves from the central bank. Several policymakers have said they are open to a 50-bp move.

“It seemed inevitable to me that 50-basis-point hike bets would become more popular given that the ECB is widely perceived as being behind the curve and other central banks have started to move in 50-basis-point increments as well,” said Antoine Bouvet, senior rates strategist at ING, referring to the Reserve Bank of Australia. The Australian central bank raised interest rates by 50 bps on Tuesday in a hawkish surprise.

“The key question ahead of tomorrow is whether the ECB can deliver on hawkish expectations. Clearly the April meeting was a puzzling one for markets with rhetoric failing to match market expectations and I suspect the same might be true at this meeting,” Bouvet said.

In the broader market, bond yields continued to rise on Wednesday but remained slightly below multi-year highs touched on Tuesday.

By 0743 GMT, Germany’s 10-year yield, the benchmark for the euro area, was up 3 bps at 1.31%, after touching the highest since 2014 at 1.343% on Tuesday.

Italy’s 10-year yield was up 5 bps at 3.45%, after having risen to the highest since 2018 at 3.55% on Tuesday. The closely watched risk premium on 10-year Italian debt over Germany’s was at 213 bps, down from over 220 bps earlier this week.

In the primary market, Germany and Portugal will sell 10-year bonds at auctions on Wednesday.

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