ECB interest rate decision - Draghi speech - Live

Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, is scheduled to deliver his remarks on the ECB's monetary policy decisions in a press conference at 13:30 GMT.

Key notes

ECB: Focus on staff projections - BBH.

In view of analysts at BBH, the focus is primarily on the ECB meeting today, while ahead of the meeting, the flash PMI for December showed that growth momentum is continuing, and will likely carry over into next year.  

ECB Preview: 5 Major Banks expectations from December meet.

Today we have an all-important ECB meeting and as we get close to the decision timings, here are the expectations as forecasted by the economists and researchers of 5 major banks for the upcoming meet.

About Mario Draghi

The European Central Bank's president Mario Draghi was born in 1947 in Rome, Italy. Graduated of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Draghi became the president of the European Central Bank in 2011. As part of his job in the Governing Council he gives press conferences in the back of how the ECB observes the current European economy. President's comments may determine positive or negative the Euro's trend in the short-term. Usually, if he shows a hawkish outlook, that is seen as positive (or bullish) for the EUR, while a dovish is seen as negative (or bearish).