FRANKFURT, April 18 (Reuters) - The European Central
Bank's (ECB) chief economist on Tuesday backed a further
interest rate increase at the ECB's next meeting on May 4 but
said its size would depend on incoming data, especially a survey
of euro zone banks.
"As of now, two weeks away, I think the baseline is that we
should increase interest rates in May but what we do in terms of
scale, I'm not going to set a default number," Philip Lane said
on Bloomberg TV.
(Reporting by Francesco Canepa
Editing by Mark Potter)
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