{"id":354,"date":"2014-10-21T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=354"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:31:03","slug":"exclusive-ecb-looking-at-corporate-bond-buys-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: ECB looking at corporate bond buys | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/10\/21\/us-ecb-policy-idUSKCN0IA0WU20141021\">Exclusive: ECB looking at corporate bond buys | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">(Reuters) &#8211; The European Central Bank is considering buying corporate\u00a0<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/bonds?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">bonds<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on the secondary market and may decide on the matter as soon as December with a view to begin buying early next year, several sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">The ECB has already carried out work on such purchases, which would widen out the private-sector asset-buying program it began on Monday &#8211; stimulus it is deploying to try to foster lending to businesses and thereby support the\u00a0<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/subjects\/euro-zone?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">euro zone<\/a><\/span><span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/economy?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">economy<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8220;The pressure in this direction is high,&#8221; said one person familiar with the work inside the ECB, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">Asked about the possibility of making such purchases, an ECB spokesman said: &#8220;The Governing Council has taken no such decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">The ECB&#8217;s policymaking Governing Council could discuss the possibility of making such purchases at its December meeting, two of the four sources Reuters spoke to said. All four said such plans were being discussed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: ECB looking at corporate bond buys | Reuters. (Reuters) &#8211; The European Central Bank is considering buying corporate\u00a0bonds\u00a0on the secondary market and may decide on the matter as soon as December with a view to begin buying early next year, several sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. 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