EURUSD Intra-Day Fundamentals - Minimum Bid Rate and 150 pips price movement

EURUSD Intra-Day Fundamentals - Minimum Bid Rate and 150 pips price movement

3 December 2015, 14:42
Sergey Golubev
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2014-12-03 12:45 GMT | [EUR - Minimum Bid Rate]
  • past data is 0.05%
  • forecast data is 0.05%
  • actual data is 0.05% according to the latest press release

[EUR - Minimum Bid Rate]= Interest rate on the main refinancing operations that provide the bulk of liquidity to the banking system.
Short term interest rates are the paramount factor in currency valuation - traders look at most other indicators merely to predict how rates will change in the future.

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At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the deposit facility will be decreased by 10 basis points to -0.30%, with effect from 9 December 2015.

The interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rate on the marginal lending facility will remain unchanged at 0.05% and 0.30% respectively.

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