With an increasing number of market participants expecting a rate cut from the ECB at next week's May meeting, Goldman Sachs is piling on in a considerably less exuberant manner than the crash lower in peripheral bond yields would suggest. EURUSD reversed its gains very rapidly as Goldman slashed its growth forecast from -0.5% to -0.7%, expects a 25bps cut next week, but notes that this is "largely cosmetic" with few real implications for the economy. Critically, they also remind us that Draghi and his fellow ECB'ers have been increasingly stressing the limits of what the ECB can do - making it clear that it is ... (full story)