ECB holds to its previous plan awaiting data and "shocks"
After the European Central Bank decided to leave monetary policy alone, the central bank’s president Mario Draghi struck a balanced tone but left the door wide open to further policy action. “We continue to believe the central bank’s work is not yet done,” predicted a June 2 Capital Economics piece titled “ECB holds fire but more easing still likely.”
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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