Businessweek: The ECB Pulls the Rate-Hike Trigger citing inflation risks
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The ECB Pulls the Rate-Hike Trigger citing inflation risks
Unlike the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank has one policy mandate: maintaining price stability. And the ECB put its money where its mouth is on July 3, raising its benchmark interest rate 25 basis points to 4.25%. The Swedish Riksbank also raised its benchmark rate 25 basis points, to 4.5%, earlier in the day. The ECB's move was widely expected by financial markets. Recent hawkish comments and the reaction to rising overall interest rates in the euro zone, along with stronger economic data, at least from Germany, had changed expectations to a rate hike in recent months.
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