ECB may decide QE end in June, up rates a year later - Lautenschlaeger

Reuters

Published May 29, 2018 16:46

ECB may decide QE end in June, up rates a year later - Lautenschlaeger

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could decide next month to end its bond-buying programme later year and then hike interest rates roughly a year later, ECB board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger said on Tuesday.

"June might be the month to decide once and for all to gradually end net asset purchases by the end of this year," Lautenschlaeger, a known policy hawk, told a university lecture.