Christine Lagarde takes another step in her "Whatever it takes" approach

December 11, 2020 13:30

Since yesterday's session, Christine Lagarde has not only endorsed the famous phrase of her predecessor, Mario Draghi, from July 2012, but also taken "Whatever it takes" to another level, after announcing an expansion of the current stimulus program in the last meeting of the year.

During her press conference, she announced:

  • The current program to fight the pandemic (PEPP) will increase by half a billion euros, expanding this program to 1.85 billion euros, just 6 months after its last expansion in the month of June
  • This guarantees the validity of this program up until March 2022.

This movement has caused the 10-year bonds of various countries like Spain to trade negative for the first time, thus joining countries such as Portugal or France, while Italy continues to pay 0.566% for its 10-year bonds.

In addition to this measure, the European Central Bank also announced:

  • An increase in its liquidity auction injection program known as TLTRO III until June

They are considering maintaining its veto on the distribution of dividends from banks, although there will be some exceptions, thus affecting the banking sector, once again keeping interest rates at 0%.

On the other hand, it seems that the European Union is finally unlocking its aid program for post-covid recovery, although these will probably not arrive until summer after both Hungary and Poland withdraw their veto.

Waiting for America

After last Friday, we learned of bad employment data in the United States. A new stimulus package of 908 billion dollars seemed closer, but it appears that we will have to wait a few more days since uncertainty is growing.

While we wait for the United States to definitively approve a new stimulus plan before the end of this year 2020, the Japanese government has announced an extraordinary stimulus plan of 3 billion euros in which 80% will go to a plan to subsidize travel within the country to reactivate internal tourism and, thus, reactivate this sector so badly affected by the pandemic.

The dollar continues to weaken

While we wait for the United States to announce its new stimulus program, the US dollar continues in its process of weakening against the rest of the main currencies. So far this month, the dollar index has lost around 1.23% trading at a minimum of 90.49 points after losing its previous support level at 92.13 points. As such, there has been an increase in the downward trend that began at the end of last March after reaching the level of 103.00 points.

With its three moving averages sloping downward and its MACD in negative territory, the mood in the medium term remains bearish, although in the short term, we may find a recovery due to the overbought signs that we observe in the stochastic indicator.

Source: Admiral Markets MetaTrader 5 Supreme Edition, Dollar index daily chart (from August 23, 2019, to December 11, 2020). Completed: December 11, 2020. Note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results or future performance.


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