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Peak ECB Rates Followed by Rapid Cuts Is Wrong Bet, Nagel Says

Joachim Nagel.

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Expectations that reductions will follow shortly after the European Central Bank brings borrowing costs to a peak are misguided, according to Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel.

“It would be wrong to speculate that an interest-rate peak will soon be followed by cuts,” the German central banker told Handelsblatt in an interview published Tuesday.