Increase in ECB Interest Rates

I thought that you'd said enough?
SteelBlue05 said:
I think its easy to be an annoying twit when hiding behind an annoymous username
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Don't be so hard on yourself mate.
 
Hi Efm,

I read this today on rte.ie...

"The European Central Bank sent a clear signal today that it is about to raise its key interest rates, with ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet saying the guardian of the euro was 'ready' to take a decision on rates. "

So it looks like its on its way....
 
ClubMan said:
I thought that you'd said enough?

Don't be so hard on yourself mate.
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Is this a competition on who has the last word? Ok Clubman you have it.
 
My guess (their I’ve said it) is 0.25% followed by further raises of 0.25% over the coming months cumulating with a base rate of 3% in the summer of 2005. I love speculating on the future its soooo liberating.
 
ClubMan said:
You implied that it was:

How exactly? Timing the market and attempting to second guess the financial institutions and the fixed rates that they set is a mug's game.
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I took your reference to " stuff " as a reference to financial markets generally. You don't have to second guess anyone .You need to make sure that you make more on your winning positions than you lose on you losing positions. What distinguishes success from failure in trading financial markets is discipline and money management.
 
Duplex said:
soooo liberating.
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Sinfully so...

Now, can we please delete posts #2 through #24 and have a bit less of 'that kind of thing', please? It hurts my poor old eyes.

A guy in the pub here beside me swears they're gonna kick the ECB rate up to 9% or 10% — sort of 'back to the Seventies' vibe by Monsieur Trichet, as he finally loses the plot. But then again he might just be indulging in idle speculation...
 
Originally posted by efm:
Why do we expect the ECB to raise rates ? Eurozone economic growth is still below 2% and is only expected to rise above 2% next year
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And then:


This goes to show how I can be proven wrong in less than 2 minutes, and also why I am not an economist!!
 
demoivre said:
You don't have to second guess anyone .
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To make money on interest rate speculation you need to second guess the fixed rates set by the institutions. For example, to make/save money on a fixed rate mortgage I need to second guess the lender's fixed rate and assume that I can figure out that they are wrong and that my prediction of the future is more accurate. This is effectively gambling. Since this thread was originally posted in the Mortgages & Home Buying forum I assume that the context is primarily in relation to mortgages. I see no logical reason why anybody can or should base mortgage selection decisions on speculation about future interest rate fluctuations. But I'm just a clown so what would I know...
 
I'd expect .25% in the first move - looking like December.

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You read it on RTE.ie ? I posted it on this website hot off the line before RTE carried the story
 
I agree with that . As I said I thought when you asked "what point is there in speculating about this stuff?" you were referring to financial markets generally ie what's the point in speculating on financial markets ?
 
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What amazes me about this apparent abhorrence of making reasonable forecasts of such important issues as the cost of money is that the distain does not seem to extend to plainly uninformed decisions by posters discussing investments in property here and abroad.

These investors taking wild stabs at the net present value of a flat in Sophia are never chided for their barefaced conjecture, even thought the time frame is measured in decades and not months and the variables involved are numerous and unfathomable.

Any investment is time specific and therefore dependent on occurrence in the future, think about it.
 
For what it's worth this issue was also raised here (click on the link in the top right for the full thread).
 
1%, 0.5%, 10%, -4% etc.
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It would be excellent if they were to raise the interest rate by -4%. Would the bank start paying me the interest on my mortgage? (Although I wouldn't fancy having any savings accounts)
 
The reason why interest rate changes are interesting(No pun intended) is twofold. Firstly the pricing of shorterm interest rates is unique in that is set by a human/committee of humans. This means that central banking watching is akin to soviet style Kremlin watching in which every phrase is pored over and analysed and that's done secondly because interest rates are the price of money which in turn effect the price of ALL financial assets. If monetary policy is held tight this favours bonds and cash. If monetary policy is loose it favours equities and hard assets like property and commodities.
 
The 0.25 on Dec 1 seems to be a given IMO. After that it is hard to say though I think there will be at least one extra hike by April. I wonder if this will have any effect on property prices though I expect a raft of reports about more huge increases in property and how the market will be unaffected by interest rate increases. No wonder why Trichet is particularly concerned with the state of our housing market.
 
Sounds like .25% by Christmas and a full 1% by end of 2006 seems to be the general consensus - German economy havig better than expected results and bean counters concerned about inflationary issues.

Roy
 
onekeano said:
Sounds like .25% by Christmas and a full 1% by end of 2006 seems to be the general consensus - German economy havig better than expected results and bean counters concerned about inflationary issues.

Roy
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Surely inflationary issues are more the concern of economists and not bean counters
 
"If monetary policy is held tight this favours bonds and cash. If monetary policy is loose it favours equities and hard assets like property and commodities."

Well monetary policy has been loose since 1981 and bonds have been on a bull run since then and commodities in a bear market. However the tide seems to have turned since 2001 and commodoties have been rising strongly along with property. However we have had a few short term property booms since 1981 but bonds and commodities seem to follow much longer cycles. In the 1970s we had rising interest rates and rising commodities and falling bond prices. Then interest rates were chasing commodity prices which were causing the inflation. However this time it is not commodities that are causing the inflation but property prices and the additional costs it is putting on other sectors of the global economy. It is note worthy that one commentator on another thread asked the question whether rising interest rates could themselves be inflationary because they caused the price of debt to increase.
 
ClubMan said:
Since this thread was originally posted in the Mortgages & Home Buying forum I assume that the context is primarily in relation to mortgages.
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FYI, it was originally posted in the "Banking,Borrowing, and Credit Cards" forum.
 
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