ROME, FEBRUARY 02 – “No, no, no”: thus the president of the ECB Christine Lagarde on the hypothesis that the ECB, after a third consecutive rise in interest rates anticipated for the month of March, may have ended with the tightening on the cost of money. Lagarde explained that after March “we will have to evaluate” the economic data. On the next rise by half a point in March, the ECB president explained that “it is what we intend to do, it is a strong word even if not an irrevocable or absolute commitment”, but “no one must doubt” the ECB’s determination to restore the inflation at 2%. (HANDLE).
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