Weidmann: Risk of self-reinforcing deflation ‘very low’

Bundesbank president says there was ‘no immediate need’ for QE in the eurozone

Jens Weidmann
Jens Weidmann: 'no immediate need' for QE

Deutsche Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann has insisted that "most" governing council members at the European Central Bank (ECB) believe the risk of self-reinforcing deflation in the eurozone remains "very low".

Speaking on February 12 at the City of London Corporation, Weidmann stressed that the region was experiencing a "disinflationary process" rather than a "deflationary spiral of decreasing prices and wages".

As a result, he said, there "no immediate need" for the ECB to launch

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