Fitch: European Investors See Withdrawal of Bank Stimulus

Politics ♦ Published: August 9, 2013; 14:31 ♦ (Vindobona)

More European investors now see the withdrawal of central bank stimulus as a bigger risk to European credit markets than eurozone sovereign debt problems.

Fitch: European Investors See Withdrawal of Bank Stimulus / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Yet, most believe central banks will tighten policy without threatening the economic recovery, according to Fitch Ratings' latest quarterly investor survey.

The risk posed by the winding down of quantitative easing was deemed high by 68% of survey respondents, up from just 19% in Fitch’s April survey, and an all-time-high since the rating agency introduced this question in…