Bundesbank was against ECB's extra stimulus measures

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Shock! Livesquawk with the news that Buba were not in favour of Draghi's pile of easing measures yesterday.

• Fear a "doom loop" of high market expectations followed by disappointment
• Weidmann happy to debate extra measures but may have preferred to do nothing

The WSJ have the article (gated) here

[thenews]

Latest numbers from the bond buying bods at the ECB week ending 9 September 2016

• Bought 16.38bn vs 11.14bn prior
• Total covered bonds 191.5bn vs 190.7bn prior
• Total ABS 20.2bn vs 20.1bn prior
• Total corp bonds 22.9bn vs 20.5bn prior