‘Read the letters stoopid’ is what he thinks, but says so more politely, to what the question raiser should do.

  • ECB didn’t give deadline to develop new measures
  • 2012 balance sheet levels refers to post LTRO levels, March 2012
  • ECB hasn’t discussed specific instruments today
  • ECB spent many hours discussing how to work ABS program
  • Important thing is to stay within ECB mandate

EUr/USD has had a dip below 1.24 to 1.2396 and is waltzing around 1.2420/30