European Central Bank Governing Council Member: The European Central Bank will discuss raising interest rates and maintaining current rates.

ME News, April 5 (UTC+8), from Jin10 News. In a podcast episode aired on April 4, Slijp… (ECB) Governing Council member and Governor of De Nederlandsche Bank Slijp… said that the European Central Bank will next discuss options to raise interest rates and keep rates unchanged. He believes this will be the focus of the discussion for the ECB’s interest rate decision on April 30. Although new data will be available to reference by then, the amount is limited. He added, “Right now, we are like the Federal Reserve—we don’t know how the interest rate path will develop. But in any case, we will ultimately make a decision based on the data available at that time.” (Source: Jin10 News)