Rabobank: No rate hikes coming from ECB in 2019-20

Rabobank research team has changed their view and now it is not expecting the ECB to hike in 2019 or 2020.

Key Quotes

“Even though we hold some hopes of a moderate (domestic) growth pickup in Eurozone from Q2 onwards, we believe ECB has already missed its ‘window’ to hike “through the summer” (even under a flexible interpretation of that guidance).”

“As we believe 2020 will bring new challenges the ECB cannot ignore, it increasingly faces a ‘Japan/BoE’ type of scenario This below-consensus and below-market view implies that the risks to our view are now to the upside; but this is just hope that we will be proved wrong.”