ECB Signals Interest Rate Hike Likely for July

European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet said to day that “strong vigilance” is needed to ensure inflation is held at bay. The latest feedback confirms “continued upward pressure on inflation,” Trichet said in Frankfurt today after the ECB kept its benchmark lending rate at 1.25 percent.

Source: Bloomberg

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