{"id":643555,"date":"2026-06-17T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643555\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:15:14","slug":"ecb-policymaker-simkus-sees-at-least-one-more-rate-hike-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643555\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB policymaker Simkus sees at least one more rate hike ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see at least one more rate increaseIt&#8217;s important to cap inflation expectations<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"434\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">ECB&#8217;s Simkus expects the central bank to deliver at least one more rate hike to lean against inflation risks and make sure inflation expectations remain in check.  <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"920\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">According to Simkus, there&#8217;s still enough upside risk for inflation to justify additional policy tightening amid broadening price pressures.  He stressed that capping inflation expectations remains central to ECB\u2019s goal to keep inflation around target over the medium-term. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1339\" data-end=\"1692\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">His comments align with the ECB\u2019s broader view to prevent second-round effects. The market was pricing in two rate hikes for the ECB by year-end but those bets were pared back after the surprising breakthrough in US-Iran negotiations. Traders are now expecting just one last hike. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I see at least one more rate increaseIt&#8217;s important to cap inflation expectations ECB&#8217;s Simkus expects the central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643555","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\/643555","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=643555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}