{"id":194,"date":"2019-07-03T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T09:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2019-07-03T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T09:49:41","slug":"change-of-ecb-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/change-of-ecb-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of ECB president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>European\nbond markets can breathe a sigh of relief\nthis morning as Christine Lagarde is poised to be the new president of the\nEuropean Central Bank, succeeding Mario Draghi in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nrelief is perhaps more about who is not going to be the new president, rather\nthan who will be at the helm; German Bundesbank chief Jens Weidman was\nconsidered to be one of the frontrunners for the post. While Draghi will be\nremembered for pledging to do \u2018whatever it takes\u2019 to preserve the euro, Weidman\nwill be known for trying all he could to prevent some of Draghi\u2019s policies\nbeing enacted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European bond markets can breathe a sigh of relief this morning as Christine Lagarde is poised to be the new president of the European Central Bank, succeeding Mario Draghi in October. The relief is perhaps more about who is not going to be the new president, rather than who will be at the helm; German &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/change-of-ecb-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Change of ECB president&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}