{"id":616993,"date":"2026-06-02T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616993\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:53:15","slug":"ecb-policymaker-rehn-says-june-rate-move-would-be-an-insurance-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616993\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB policymaker Rehn says June rate move would be an &#8220;insurance&#8221; hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">ECB&#8217;s Rehn said that an interest rate increase at the ECB&#8217;s June meeting should be viewed as an &#8220;insurance&#8221; move to guard against future inflation risks, even if current inflation expectations remain well anchored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The characterization of a June rate move as an &#8220;insurance hike&#8221; indicates that policymakers are unlikely to deliver a back-to-back rate hike in July as some analysts have been suggesting without a strong signal from the data. <\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The ECB is most likely to frame the move as an insurance and then wait at least until September to see how the data and the US-Iran situation evolves over the summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ECB&#8217;s Rehn said that an interest rate increase at the ECB&#8217;s June meeting should be viewed as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}