ECB minutes hint at further easing measures

Governing council discussed expanding size and scope of pandemic purchase programme

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The European Central Bank

The European Central Bank has released the minutes of its last monetary policy meeting, which strongly hint that it may take further easing measures.

The minutes of the ECB governing council’s discussions from April 28 and 29 say more information on the eurozone’s economy will be available at its next scheduled meeting, in June.  They say the governing council “would have to stand ready” at the June meeting to adjust both its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme and possibly other tools “if it

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