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ECB's Coeure says too early to decide on more stimulus – CNBC

It is too early for the European Central Bank to decide on expanding or extending its asset-purchase programme, a member of the ECB’s executive board said on Monday, even after inflation in the currency bloc turned negative. Six months into the ECB’s 60-billion-euros a month asset-purchase programme, headline price growth in the currency bloc turned negative in September, leading some market participants to speculate that the scheme may be ramped