FRANKFURT, July 24 (Reuters) – Following is the statement from the European Central Bank following its policy meeting.
The Governing Council today decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged.
Inflation is currently at the 2% medium-term target.
The incoming information is broadly in line with the Governing Council’s previous assessment of the inflation outlook.
Domestic price pressures have continued to ease, with wages growing more slowly.
Partly reflecting the Governing Council’s past interest rate cuts, the economy has so far proven resilient overall in a challenging global environment.
At the same time, the environment remains exceptionally uncertain, especially because of trade disputes.
The Governing Council is determined to ensure that inflation stabilises at its 2% target in the medium term.
It will follow a data-dependent and meeting-by-meeting approach to determining the appropriate monetary policy stance.
In particular, the Governing Council’s interest rate decisions will be based on its assessment of the inflation outlook and the risks surrounding it, in light of the incoming economic and financial data, as well as the dynamics of underlying inflation and the strength of monetary policy transmission.
The Governing Council is not pre-committing to a particular rate path.
Key ECB interest rates The interest rates on the deposit facility, the main refinancing operations and the marginal lending facility will remain unchanged at 2.00%, 2.15% and 2.40% respectively.
Asset purchase programme (APP) and pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) The APP and PEPP portfolios are declining at a measured and predictable pace, as the Eurosystem no longer reinvests the principal payments from maturing securities.
*** The Governing Council stands ready to adjust all of its instruments within its mandate to ensure that inflation stabilises at its 2% target in the medium term and to preserve the smooth functioning of monetary policy transmission.
Moreover, the Transmission Protection Instrument is available to counter unwarranted, disorderly market dynamics that pose a serious threat to the transmission of monetary policy across all euro area countries, thus allowing the Governing Council to more effectively deliver on its price stability mandate.
The President of the ECB will comment on the considerations underlying these decisions at a press conference starting at 14:45 CET today.
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