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Dutch governor Knot signals ECB will keep raising rates in months ahead- FT

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Posted on December 26, 2022

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Klaas Knot, head of the Dutch Central Bank, speaks at a parliamentary hearing in The Hague, emphasizing the ECB's plan for rate hikes. This image highlights the importance of monetary policy decisions in the banking sector.
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(Reuters) – Head of Dutch Central Bank Klaas Knot said with five policy meetings between now and July 2023, the ECB would achieve “quite a decent pace of tightening” through half percentage point rises before borrowing costs eventually peaked by the summer, the Financial Times reported on Monday. “The risk of us doing too little […]

(Reuters) – Head of Dutch Central Bank Klaas Knot said with five policy meetings between now and July 2023, the ECB would achieve “quite a decent pace of tightening” through half percentage point rises before borrowing costs eventually peaked by the summer, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

“The risk of us doing too little is still the bigger risk,” Knot told the newspaper in an interview. “We are just at the beginning of the second half.”

(Reporting by Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat in Bengaluru; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

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