-La BCE baisse marginalement ses taux de refinancement;-Le taux des deposit facility passe bien à -0,40%-Le volume d’achats passe à 80 contre 60 et contre 75 attendus-Elargissement de la gamme de titres que la BCE peut acheter pour pallier à la rareté de matière achetable-Lancement d’un nouveau round de TLTRO à quatre ansNotre commentaire: un coup de fouet, coup de whisky, pas de surprise fondamentale autre que quantitativeRéaction des marchés, on salue l’agressivité de Draghi par des hausses de 2 à 3% sur les indices européens, baisse de l’or a 1242. Pétrole peu de changement, dollar en hausse à 98,10 soit environ 1%. L’Euro perd environ 1%.Suivi:passage à vide après la hausse initiale, Wall Street n’emboite pas le pas derrière les marchés euros, le pétrole rebaisse , l’euro remonte au dessus de 1,09

At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB took the following monetary policy decisions:
(1) The interest rate on the main refinancing operations of the Eurosystem will be decreased by 5 basis points to 0.00%, starting from the operation to be settled on 16 March 2016.
(2) The interest rate on the marginal lending facility will be decreased by 5 basis points to 0.25%, with effect from 16 March 2016.
(3) The interest rate on the deposit facility will be decreased by 10 basis points to -0.40%, with effect from 16 March 2016.
(4) The monthly purchases under the asset purchase programme will be expanded to €80 billion starting in April.
(5) Investment grade euro-denominated bonds issued by non-bank corporations established in the euro area will be included in the list of assets that are eligible for regular purchases.
(6) A new series of four targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO II), each with a maturity of four years, will be launched, starting in June 2016. Borrowing conditions in these operations can be as low as the interest rate on the deposit facility.
The President of the ECB will comment on the considerations underlying these decisions at a press conference starting at 14:30 CET today.