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Interest-rate and balance-sheet decisions for the euro area, set by the European Central Bank against a 2% medium-term inflation target.
ECB holdings of QE bonds and loans fell by 95 billion euros in the third quarter, leaving them 53% below their mid-2022 peak. Most of that retreat is repaid loans, so the central bank still owns two-thirds of its peak bond book as euro-area yields rise.
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Brent topped $105 and the 10-year touched 4.902 per cent in the same session. The cash operation blamed for the yield move would cover about 1.5 basis points of annual interest on the debt it was meant to steady.
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Philip Lane's September projections have euro-area inflation averaging 3.0% in 2026 and peaking at 3.6% in the fourth quarter, above the 2.50% policy rate the ECB set on the same day it upgraded growth.
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Fabio Panetta told a Kyiv conference that AI's demand effects and its productivity effects push inflation in opposite directions, and that the order they arrive in will shape ECB rates for years. He also called technology valuations overly optimistic.
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The ECB's policy rate is already 2.5 percent, and one voting member now says the pressure is coming from gas and electricity, with futures putting roughly 60 percent odds on another quarter point on October 29.
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August wholesale prices ran 5.4% against a 5.3% forecast and the ten-year yield added 10.7 basis points. Housing and the private-market managers absorbed most of Thursday's selling while the banks barely moved.
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