【英语财经】欧洲央行：欧元区可能继续逐渐复苏 ECB keeps faith in gradual eurozone recovery despite August equities turmoil

The eurozone’s monetary policymakers want more time to decide whether to beef up their ￠1.1tn quantitative easing package, according to official minutes, resisting more aggressive easing in September because the region’s economic recovery looks strong enough to shake off global market turmoil.

The latest account of the European

Central Bank’s monetary policy discussions during its September policy meeting, published yesterday, showed

officials believed expectations of a

gradual recovery remained “fundamentally unchanged”, despite the China-led

rout in global equities during August.

Immediately after the meeting, Mario Draghi, the central bank’s president, told the press his institution stood ready to provide more monetary easing should a global downturn threaten the currency area’s economy. Mr Draghi’s message raised investor hopes that the ECB would expand its QE package should the volatility in financial markets seen over the summer persist.

Policymakers attending the September discussions acknowledged that recent developments in the global economy, in particular in emerging markets, had raised the threat of a weaker recovery in the region.

However, while there was broad agreement among the 25 members of the central bank’s top-ranking governing council that the environment had become “more challenging” since its mid-July discussions, a gradual recovery was likely to continue. Household and company spending, as well as an uptick in business investment, would support growth.

官方会议纪要显示，欧元区货币政策制定者想要更多时间来决定是否扩充其1.1万亿欧元的量化宽松计划，他们在9月时抵制采取更多激进宽松举措，因为欧元区的经济复苏看起来颇为强劲，足以摆脱全球市场动荡的影响。

欧洲央行(ECB)在9月政策会议期间货币政策讨论的正式记录昨天公布，它表明欧洲央行的官员相信，对逐步复苏的期望仍然“在根本层面上没有变化”，尽管8月时全球股市出现中国引领的的暴跌。

欧洲央行行长马里奥?德拉吉(Mario Draghi)曾在会后告诉媒体，一旦全球低迷威胁到欧元区的经济，欧洲央行随时准备出台更多放松货币政策的措施。德拉吉的话增加了投资者的希望——一旦今年夏天出现的金融市场波动持续，欧洲央行将扩大其量化宽松计划。

出席9月欧洲央行会议讨论的政策制定者承认，全球经济、特别是新兴市场最近的发展态势，提升了欧元区复苏减弱的威胁。

然而，尽管欧洲央行最高层的管理委员会的25名成员达成了广泛共识，认为自该行7月中旬开会以来外界环境已经变得“更具挑战性”，但欧元区很可能继续逐渐复苏。家庭和企业支出，以及商业投资的增加，将支撑经济增长。

译者/马柯斯