Buba’s Wuermeling: ECB's next policy moves are in flux

Reuters reporting weekend’s comments from the German central bank - Bundesbank (Buba) director Joachim Wuermeling on the ECB’s monetary policy program.

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European Central Bank next policy moves, and the order they come in are still up in the air

Could include a rate hike or sales of bonds

"The forward guidance of the ECB council now presumes that interest rate hikes are currently to be expected at the earliest after the end of net monetary policy purchases"  "But here too, everything is in flux."

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