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PEPP redemptions no substitute for spread-fighting tool

The ECB’s guidance that it can use PEPP reinvestments to contain bond spreads has a few big limitations. If the forthcoming interest rate hikes cause spreads to blow out, the ECB will either need to change the rules governing its reinvestments or, more likely, create a new spread-fighting tool.

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