The European Commission's report piled pressure on the European Central Bank, which has remained consistently hawkish over interest rates.
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Last year, after the flood of upbeat reports, the European Central Bank sent out hawkish signals about interest rates.
Rumours of his hawkish comments about interest rates at a private dinner sponsored by Lehman Brothers briefly ruffled financial markets.
The minutes of the latest Bank of England meeting showed a slightly more hawkish stance on interest rates, which has also unsettled investors.
Alastair McCaig, market analyst at IG, said: Investors are braced for a potentially hawkish statement [on interest rates] from the Federal Reserve, having had the Bank of England minutes this morning as a warm-up act.
Overall the FTSE 100 fell 34.69 points to 7028.24 after earlier hitting 7092, as the minutes of the Bank of England's last meeting slowed a slightly more hawkish tone on interest rates than expected.
Trichet's remarks sounded a hawkish notes on interest rates, and led market watchers to believe that further tightening of monetary policy may be in the offing after the ECB's quarter-point rate hike July 3.
However, with the Fed holding a hawkish outlook for interest rates over the rest of the year, and with the equity market resuming its rally over the last couple of months, the total trading assets for all these banks should nudge higher – possibly crossing $1.55 trillion by the end of Q2 and $1.6 trillion by the end of the year.
The US Federal Reserve set out a more hawkish path for raising interest rates yesterday as it boosted its base rate at the conclusion of Jerome Powell's first policymaking meeting as chairman.
