Economics
Lagarde Sets ECB on Policy Autopilot While It Stops to Think
- Officials pause amid first strategy review in a generation
- Commerzbank’s Dixon sats there’s no sense in being activist
Christine Lagarde speaks during a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Jan. 23.
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Christine Lagarde’s inaugural move as European Central Bank president could presage the institution’s first hiatus in policy activism for years.