Draghi Says ECB Measures Could Include Buying Government Bonds
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Mario Draghi has explicitly cited government-bond buying as a policy tool officials could use to stimulate the economy should the outlook worsen.
“Unconventional measures might entail the purchase of a variety of assets, one of which is sovereign bonds,” the European Central Bank president said in Brussels yesterday in answer to a question during his quarterly testimony to lawmakers at the European Parliament.