SNB’s Jordan: For the time being the expansionary policy is right and no reason to change it

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chairman Thomas Jordan said, “for the time being the expansionary policy of SNB is right and no reason to change it,” at the post-monetary policy meeting press conference on Thursday.

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If major central banks go in direction of normalization, it's a good sign for the global economy and a good sign for SNB.

But we still have a very high Swiss franc and inflation which is very low, so have to keep the expansionary monetary policy.

We look at the necessity to reactivate the anti-cyclical capital buffer very closely, sees no signs of the credit crunch in Switzerland.