ECB keeps rates and makes no announcement about Greece

          

The European Central Bank (ECB) decided to leave the benchmark rate at 0% since March, and has not announced measures on Greece, contrary to what some analysts believed.

Maintenance of rates was widely expected by the markets, they consider that the ECB intends to assess the impact of their stimulus measures of economic activity and inflation before changing monetary policy.

The board of the ECB's ministers, meeting in Vienna, made no announcements about any positive initiative to Greek banks, frustrating the expectations that arose after the recent agreement reached between Athens and its creditors (EU, ECB and IMF), which allowed continuity the bailout of Greece in exchange for reforms.

Conjectures cited the possibility of reactivating the mechanism, suspended in 2015, which would allow Greek banks to obtain liquidity in regular operations of the ECB financing through the issuance of Greek public debt.