A senior European Central Bank official has dismissed the idea that it could start buying Eurozone government bonds after the announcement of a snap French parliamentary election caused a sell-off in the country’s debt.
Philip Lane, chief economist of the ECB, said: “What we are seeing is a repricing but it is not in the world of disorderly market dynamics right now”.
His comments, at a Reuters event in London, indicate that the ECB currently believes there is little reason to consider activating its relatively new, but as yet untested, emergency bond-buying powers to support Eurozone debt markets.
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