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Bloomberg (Paul Gordon and Hans Nichols): “The European Central Bank must be wary of introducing fresh stimulus that could backfire and weaken the transmission of policy to the economy, Governing Council member Jens Weidmann said. ‘What matters for us is that we don’t produce counterproductive effects,’ Weidmann, who heads Germany’s Bundesbank, said… ‘If through the effect on, for instance, the stability of banks our measures produce the opposite of what we want then it wouldn’t be smart to embrace them in the first place.’”
Reuters (John O’Donnell): “Bank profits will shrink if rock-bottom interest rates stay in place for too long, the head of Germany’s central bank warned…, signaling that he favors an eventual change in tack. The remarks from the Bundesbank’s influential president, Jens Weidmann, illustrate how seriously Germany is taking the fallout from years of low borrowing rates after a recent crash in bank stocks sucked in the country’s flagship Deutsche Bank . ‘The low interest-rate environment particularly weighs on banks’ earnings potential,’ Weidmann told journalists…. ‘The longer the low-interest-rate phase stays, the steeper interest rates fall, the … smaller banks’ profit,’ said Weidmann…”