ECB set for policy decision as coronavirus sends the euro zone economy into a tailspin
The Ecu Central Bank’s (ECB) Governing Council will convene inside a virtual meeting Thursday to go over if the measures taken, for the time being, are sufficient to weather what is the worst financial crisis since The Second World War.
The possibilities high that ECB President Christine Lagarde will stress the central bank’s capability to do more as needed to prevent fragmentation within the euro area along with a tightening of monetary conditions.
“There are a couple of objectives the ECB will concentrate on at that point. First, to make sure accommodative financial conditions and stopping tensions within the economic climate,” stated Dirk Schumacher, an ECB watcher with Natixis, inside a research note.
“Second to produce fiscal space for governments to battle the cyclical e...