The President of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Thomas Jordanhas stated in a speech scheduled for Friday that “the absolute priority must be to reduce inflation to the level of price stability“.
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“We should not underestimate the secondary effects of inflation.”
“Companies do not hesitate to raise prices, it is not easy to bring inflation back to 2%“.
“Once inflation is high, the pressure of wages comes“.
“Negative rates were absolutely essentialI’m glad we’re out of this era.”
“I wouldn’t hesitate to go back to negative interest rates to deal with negative inflation.”
“The financial balance is the result of monetary policy, it had to be expanded because the exchange rate was too strong.”
“Now we can sell part of the foreign exchange reserves again.”
“The composition of the balance sheet made a lot of sense, we will continue with our investment strategy“.
Source: Fx Street
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