The European Central Bank (ECB) meeting on Thursday did not change the basic interest rate on loans, leaving it at zero.
The regulator also kept the Deposit rate at minus 0.4% per annum, the rate on margin loans — at 0.25% per annum. ECB decision in line with analyst expectations, reported by “News Economy”.
The amount of monthly asset-buying programme quantitative easing (QE) remained unchanged at 80 billion euros.
The regulator has decided to assess the impact on the economy of incentives, announced at the March meeting.
As notes Reuters, now the markets are waiting for the statements of the ECB head Mario Draghi at a press conference that began at 15:30 GMT, hoping to get more information about announced but not yet implemented measures to support the economy.
