FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Thursday (Friday in Manila) it could scale up its contentious stimulus program of bond purchases as the outlook for growth and inflation in the eurozone clouds over.

Saying it was still too early to determine the extent and impact of the economic fallout from China’s slowdown and lower oil prices, the ECB held its benchmark “refi” refinancing rate at the current all-time low of 0.05 percent, as expected.

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