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MNI (London)
ECB: A first interest rate increase in mid 2019 seems plausible and could happen
before the European Central Bank ends reinvestments under its Asset Purchase
Programme, Buba president Jens Weidmann said in a speech Weds. Speaking in
Mannheim, Weidmann said that, "market participants expect a first interest rate
increase around mid-2019, which seems to me not entirely unrealistic." He
stressed that the pace of interest rate increases and the end of the
reinvestments under the APP were dependent on the path of inflation. Full story
on MNI Mainwire
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