Trade tensions clear downward risk: ECB'S Smets
Reuters
Published Jun 19, 2018 07:35AM ET
Trade tensions clear downward risk: ECB'S Smets
LONDON (Reuters) - Escalating global trade tensions are "clearly a downward risk" for the world economy, European Central Bank policymaker Jan Smets said on Tuesday.
"In the euro zone we consider the risks for growth to be balanced, but in the global environment - and due in particular to this trade issue - the risks are more on the downward side and a little bit worrying," Smets, who heads Belgium's national central bank, said in a CNBC interview. "Basically it is not good news."
He added that although the ECB said last week that it would not raise interest rates for at least a year, it was too early to say when exactly it could lift them.
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