Spread Betting on ECB Rates

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Spread bets and CFDs on interest rates

Spread betting and contracts for differences on ECB rates should consider that they are still <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f9ccbc1e-66d1-11de-925f-00144feabdc0.html" target="_blank" title="euro zone, ECB rates, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets interest rates, spread betting ECB rates, spread betting, contracts for differences, Jean-Claude Trichet">steady at 1%</a>. Indeed, 1% is widely thought to be the floor for the European Central Bank, with the euro zone refusing to follow the U.K. and the U.S. in rates approaching 0%. The non-move was widely expected, and the ECB's rate decision is not likely to have much impact on other markets; it's already been priced in. However, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet is expected to share the euro zone monetary leadership's view of the economy later today. That speech is likely to have more of an effect on European markets. Right now, the <a href="http://forex.gftforex.com/public/item/235628" target="_blank" title="euro zone, ECB rates, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets interest rates, spread betting ECB rates, spread betting, contracts for differences, Jean-Claude Trichet">euro is lower in forex trading</a>, thanks to economic data and to concerns about economic recovery. European stocks are also in retreat today, after starting the 3rd quarter enthusiastically yesterday. 9 application/xml false CFDs contracts for differences ECB rates euro zone Jean-Claude Trichet spread bets spread bets interest rates spread betting spread betting ECB rates Spread Betting on ECB Rates Spread bets on interest rates http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060214 Firefox/3.0.11 GTB5 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 63.248.48.57 false true false false true 133532 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web