Central Banks

ECB Rate-Setters Agree on June Cut But Not Much Else Beyond

  • Officials diverge over topics from Fed to geopolitical risks
  • Such issues will dictate how quickly policy can be loosened

Christine Lagarde 

Photographer: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images
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There’s one thing European Central Bank officials seem to agree on — that a first cut in interest rates will probably be delivered in June.

How many will follow and how quickly is still very much contested.