Der Artikel unten deutet darauf hin, dass bei den Euro-Attacken lediglich eine Short-Cover-bedingte Feuerpause eingelegt wurde:
May 10, 2010, 6:40 a.m. EDT
Bond purchases seen as threat to ECB credibility
By William L. Watts, MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The European Central Bank may have given up a chunk of its credibility in a headlong effort to save the euro, economists said Monday.
Just four days after ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said policy makers hadn't even discussed the purchase of euro-zone government bonds on the secondary market at their monthly meeting, the central bank on Sunday announced it would do exactly that.
The move was announced in concert with the plan announced by the European Union early Monday morning to provide a $971 billion emergency fund to debt-strapped euro-zone countries in an effort to stem a growing sovereign-debt crisis that had threatened to throw credit markets into meltdown.
"I think the ECB has been very reluctant to invoke this nuclear option because it may undermine their inflation-fighting credibility," said Elwin de Groot, European economist at Rabobank in the Netherlands.
"But I think they saw that this was a measure that they had to take in order to give more credibility to the euro-zone government plan," he said.
Without the ECB moves, doubts might already be creeping in about the long-term effectiveness of the E.U. rescue fund, he said.
Spreads between peripheral euro-zone government bonds and German bunds have narrowed sharply and the cost of insuring the likes of Portugal, Greece and Spain against default have fallen as liquidity has returned to markets, analysts said. European shares jumped, with banking shares up sharply on ideas a meltdown of credit markets had been averted.
www.marketwatch.com/story/...eat-to-ecb-credibility-2010-05-10
