MNI POLICY: ECB's Coeure: End Of APP Won't Fuel Volatility

By Luke Heighton

     FRANKFURT (MNI) - Fears that the end of the net asset purchase program will

prompt a rise in cross-border capital flows and increased market volatility are

largely unfounded, ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure said today.

     Here are key points from his speech on exiting unconventional monetary

policies given in Paris:

     --While concerns have been voiced that cross-border capital flows may

become a source of market volatility, with uncertain effects on global asset

prices, after the end of APP, Coeure said the stock effect of central bank asset

purchase programmes, together with clearer guidance, has helped mitigate abrupt

changes in international asset allocation in recent years.

     -- The ECB's advanced forward guidance on interest rates adopted in June,

together with reinvestments from maturing securities, has reduced the likelihood

of sudden and adverse spillover effects in the future. "Further changes in our

forward guidance, if warranted in the future, may help us remain in control of

financing conditions along the policy normalization path," Coeure said.

     --As a result, policymakers have been able to pursue their domestic

objectives without sending shock waves across global financial markets.

     -- Markets are not immune to foreign spillovers but central banks are

required to calibrate their policies according to domestic mandates.

     -- In the euro area, significant monetary policy stimulus is still needed

to support the further build-up of domestic price pressures and headline

inflation developments over the medium term.

--MNI Frankfurt Bureau; +49-69-720-146; email: luke.heighton@marketnews.com

--MNI London Bureau; +44208-865-3829; email: Jason.Webb@marketnews.com

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