FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank is not currently considering widening its asset purchases to include government debt, ECB Governing Council member Christian Noyer was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Tepid demand from banks for the ECB's first offer of ultra-long loans earlier in the week raised market speculation the ECB may still have do so-called quantitative easing (QE) - printing money to buy large amounts of private and sovereign debt.
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