The very highly anticipated decision by the ECB is getting closer. On January 22nd, president Mario Draghi is expected to announce a massive bond buying program, known elsewhere as Quantitative Easing (QE).
What will be the size of the program? How exactly will it work? What details should we look out for? What is and what is not priced into EUR/USD? And what levels should we watch out for? The information has piled up, and we aim to concentrate it all in one place. This round up will be updated with each new relevant article and with the actual decision. Here goes:
- Dec 3, 12:29: ECB Preview: Short euro and long bunds opportunities: Key Points The ECB is expected to announce massive monetary easing on December 3rd. ECB President Mario Draghi has already…
- Dec 1, 7:48: Goldman: Here Is How EUR/USD Will Move On The Day: The ECB decision is approaching and tension is certainly high. What’s priced in? How will it play out? Here is…
- Oct 12, 8:22: EUR to fall on more ECB QE – Goldman Sachs: The euro managed to make its way higher amid doubts that the Fed will indeed raise rates. Can this course change? The…
- Oct 9, 15:00: ECB contemplating accelerated QE policy; Could BoE raise rates: Marcus Ashworth – Head of fixed income at Haitong Securities – joined Nick Batsford and Zak Mir in the Tip…
- Sep 3, 16:18: CAD, AUD and NZD rallying on the ECB’s message: The dovish message by Mario Draghi has hurt the euro, and was probably designed to do so. A secondary effect…
- Sep 3, 14:34: Draghi sends EUR/USD down on open door to more QE,: Mario Draghi manages to talk down the euro by changing the issue share limit, saying that the situation worsened and lowering…
- Jan 26, 8:00: ECB QE rundown, SNBomb effect on brokers, surprise cut: ECB QE is here and it’s big: we run down the event and the impact before circling back to the…
- Jan 26, 7:02: EUR/USD En-Route To Parity – Nordea: Draghi certainly delivered and didn’t disappoint: the big QE announcement sent EUR/USD way down to a weekly close around 1.12, the lowest…
- Jan 25, 19:05: EUR/USD: Selling the rebounds – Morgan Stanley: EUR/USD fell quite a lot after the announcement of massive Quantitative Easing by Mario Draghi, but after the pair reached…
- Jan 24, 9:25: This week in the markets: ECB dominates the news: Monday: An American Federal holiday on Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King day meant it was a quiet start to…
- Jan 23, 12:58: EUR/USD falls below 1.12 – hits critical support –: IT was only a few hours ago when EUR/USD fell below 1.13 and yet another big figure is broken. The low…
- Jan 23, 12:40: EUR/USD falls below 1.13 – the crash continues: EUR/USD is accelerating its losses. The low so far has been 1.1296 but the pair is still battling the round…
- Jan 23, 8:17: EUR/USD En-Route To 0.96 in 2015 after ECB Delivers – TD: Reactions continue flowing after the ECB announced a large QE program that could exceed one trillion euros. The euro already lost several…
- Jan 22, 15:58: 5 points on why Draghi more than delivered and EUR/USD: The ECB announced QE. Buying sovereign bonds in a Quantitative Easing program finally happened, and it happened big time. Draghi…
- Jan 22, 14:41: Draghi sends EUR/USD below 1.15 on 60 billion combined: The size of the move was apparently not expected by the markets: EUR/USD is below 1.16 but still not at new…
- Jan 22, 14:00: ECB QEs: €60 billion / month, over €1 trillion: The extremely highly anticipated decision by the ECB on QE is now behind us, and Draghi certainly delivered:. a program…
- Jan 22, 13:45: ECB promises more measures in presser – EUR/USD dips as: No change, but the ECB tells us that further measures will be released at the press conference. Draghi knows how…
- Jan 22, 8:34: ECB Meeting A Catalyst For EUR/USD Lower – Goldman Sachs: Will the size of the ECB’s QE be big big enough to push the euro even lower? It does not…
- Jan 21, 16:35: ECB reportedly prepares €50 billion / month program –: Reports are emerging about a program of monthly bond buys, but the time frames differ. Estimations were between 30 to 40 billion…
- Jan 21, 15:25: Perceptions of ECB independence hang in the balance: This Thursday’s ECB press conference will be a show stopper for the forex markets and could deliver another market moving…
- Jan 21, 12:07: Big Investors Are Sellers Of EUR/USD Rallies Targeting 1.10: Towards the all important ECB decision, what are big investors looking at for EUR/USD: The team team SocGen explains: Here…
- Jan 21, 10:06: ECB Day Of Reckoning; FX Market May Be In For: QE is probably priced into the price of EUR/USD, but at what size? Could we see a “buy the rumor,…
- Jan 21, 10:00: Staying Bearish EUR/USD Outright: Levels & Targets – Credit: The sentiment in the markets is still bearish on EUR/USD despite teh recent falls and ahead of the expected decision…
- Jan 21, 7:17: 7 Scenarios for the ECB decision: An announcement on QE in the euro-zone seems imminent in the euro-zone. The shocking move by the SNB with its…
- Jan 20, 12:20: How Will ECB QE Be Designed? Preview by Nomura: An announcement of QE by the ECB seems imminent, but how exactly will it work? The team at Nomura previews…
- Jan 20, 8:53: Trading The ECB – Morgan Stanley: What type of QE will the ECB announce? Will it actually delay the decision to March? What is and what…
- Jan 19, 12:01: EUR/USD Rapid Slide Could Continue Until Parity – RBS: An announcement on Quantitative Easing by the European Central Bank is imminent. But is it already priced into EUR/USD? Greg Gibbs…
- Jan 19, 1:01: ECB QE could theoretically surpass €2 trillion according to: In the past week, we have received quite a few fat hints from Draghi and his colleagues.Also  the SNB’s shock…
- Jan 19, 0:02: EUR/USD: Staying Bearish With A Wide Range Into ECB –: Is the ECB QE priced in or not priced in? That remains an open question in markets, also after the…
- Jan 17, 12:10: ECB QE Base Scenario: €500-€750 billion – Credit Suisse: An announcement on Quantitative Easing by the ECB seems imminent after recent comments from the Bank’s chiefs, including Draghi, and after…
- Jan 17, 10:18: EUR/USD falls to the lowest since November 2003 – guide: While the swing low could be ignored, the current slide of the euro is the real thing. At 1.1580, the…
- Jan 17, 8:12: The ECB’s time to shine: how to position with EUR?: A lot of details are pouring in regarding the size and the details of the ECB’s QE program, which is…
- Jan 15, 16:40: 3 hints from the SNB that ECB QE is going: The Swiss National Bank shocked the markets with removing the 3 year+ old peg on EUR/CHF just one week before the ECB…
- Jan 15, 16:08: SNB Action Hints At A Steady EUR/USD Drop From Here: The comments regarding the shock SNB move to remove the cap continue flowing. And yet again, this certainly has implications…
- Jan 14, 10:37: EUR/USD breaks below the double bottom on Draghi, OMT: The determination of Mario Draghi to push through QE despite German opposition finally has results on EUR/USD. So does the…
- Jan 14, 9:30: Did Draghi pre-announce QE in Berlin?: ECB president Mario Draghi made some strong statements: the ECB is ready to buy bonds and that Germany should understand that the…
- Jan 14, 8:36: 3 reasons to sell EUR/USD targeting 1.10 – Deutsche Bank: EUR/USD hit a double bottom and is holding on for now, but this may be only temporary. The specter of…
- Jan 13, 15:05: Why EUR Sell-Off Is Set To Extend Even If ECB: Some market analysts have cast doubts if the ECB will indeed push through with QE already at the January 22nd meeting….
- Jan 10, 12:02: EUR/USD at 0.90 by end 2017 – Goldman Sachs updated: While EUR/USD managed to bottom out after the mixed Non-Farm Payrolls report, this is not necessarily a long lasting bounce. Euro/dollar parity…
- Jan 9, 12:16: Could ECB QE Be ‘Buy The Rumor Sell The Fact’: The markets are coming around to seeing QE as imminent in the euro-zone, and the recent report about a plan…
- Jan 7, 16:25: EUR/USD: A QE program worth over €500 billion could: Chances for an announcement of QE in the euro-zone seems more than imminent after the zone slipped into deflation. Is…
- Dec 4, 17:11: EUR/USD is up after the ECB – 5 reasons why: Draghi did not deliver QE. Not now. After reasserting his leadership in November, it seemed that he approached a wait and…
