FRANKFURT (MNI) – European Central Bank Governing Council member
Jens Weidmann Friday declined to comment on reports that the ECB has
secretly imposed a weekly limit on its government bond buy program.

The Bundesbank President said he would neither confirm nor deny
media reports that the central bank had set itself a weekly limit of
about E20 billion for its Securities Market Program.

–Frankfurt newsroom +49 69 72 01 42; e-mail: jtreeck@marketnews.com

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