Exclusive: ECB's Lagarde overruled German and Dutch resistance to 'no-limits' pledge - sources
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - ECB President Christine Lagarde overruled objections from Germany and the Netherlands to adopt a historic "no-limits" commitment to shore up the region's economy in the face of the coronavirus meltdown, three sources told Reuters.The European Central Bank's 750-billion-euro (704 billion pounds) bond buying programme, agreed at an emergency meeting late on Wednesday, came with a pledge to remove self-imposed "constraints" if necessary - a reference to a cap on owning more..