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Trichet May Play ECB Rate Card as Germany Risks Split on New Greek Rescue

From bloomberg.com

European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet may today play the interest-rate card and signal to European governments that the euro region’s debt crisis is theirs to solve. Two days after German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble opened a rift with the ECB over how to fix Greece’s debt crisis, Trichet is likely to signal that the ECB is ready to raise interest rates for a second time in three months in July, a Bloomberg News survey showed. The central bank today will keep its benchmark at 1.25 percent, a separate survey showed. The latest phase of the Greek crisis risks exacerbating tensions between the ECB ... (full story)

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