FRANKFURT—European Central Bank President Mario Draghi appears to have gone beyond what top officials agreed by stating last month that the ECB’s giant bond-buying program will continue beyond next September. The minutes of the ECB’s October meeting, published on Thursday, show officials were divided over whether to announce a concrete end-date for their bond purchases, known as quantitative easing or QE—and didn’t agree to any extension or wind-down phase after September 2018.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 23, 2017 13:20 UTC