ECB’s Kazimir ‘Strongly Believes’ Interest Rates Hikes Are Over 

European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kazimir reiterated that he hopes interest-rate increases have finished following September’s 10th straight move.

“I strongly believe that our rate hike at the last meeting was the last one,” the Slovak official told reporters Thursday in Bratislava. “We’ll need to wait for the December and March forecasts. Only real data can persuade us that we’re at the peak. Only then can we start to focus on other monetary-policy tools.”