{"id":74510,"date":"2026-06-11T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/06\/11\/european-shares-edge-higher-in-cautious-trade-ecb-rate-decision-eyed\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:23:36","slug":"european-shares-edge-higher-in-cautious-trade-ecb-rate-decision-eyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/06\/11\/european-shares-edge-higher-in-cautious-trade-ecb-rate-decision-eyed\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Edge Higher In Cautious Trade; ECB Rate Decision Eyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks edged higher on Thursday as investors kept a close eye on escalating Middle East tensions and awaited the European Central Bank&#8217;s (ECB) rate decision for direction. <\/p>\n<p>To address rising inflationary pressures, the ECB is likely to raise its deposit facility rate by 25 bps to 2.25 percent and the main refinancing rate by 25 bps to 2.40 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">ECB Chief Christine Lagarde will hold the customary press conference to discuss the policy decision and address market questions at 8.45 am ET.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall-wrapper\">\n<p><i class=\"bi bi-lock-fill\"\/> Subscribe to continue reading the article.<\/p>\n<p>This article is available exclusively to RTT Biotech Investor and Intelligent Investor subscribers. Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Start Free Trial<\/p>\n<p>FREE 7-Day Trial &#8211; No Payment Required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Business News<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>European Shares Edge Higher In Cautious Trade; ECB Rate Decision Eyed<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-06-11 09:23:36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks edged higher on Thursday as investors kept a close eye on escalating Middle East tensions and awaited the European Central Bank&#8217;s (ECB) rate decision for direction. To address&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/74511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}