The European Central Bank is likely to hold on to its mammoth portfolio of sovereign debt as it starts to raise interest rates, ECB officials said, underlining the fine line it is walking as it tightens monetary policy to battle inflation while trying not to weaken the bloc’s most fragile economies.
By holding on to its sovereign bonds, the bank would be offering some relief for the region’s most indebted governments, diverging further from the Federal Reserve, which plans to start shrinking its bondholdings next week.
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