''..Close observers of this week's events said Mr. Weber may have been targeting a top job at Germany's biggest private-sector bank, Deutsche Bank AG, when the bank's chief executive Josef Ackermann retires. But the acrimony surrounding Mr. Weber's withdrawal from the ECB race may have damaged his attraction to Deutsche Bank, too, these people say. "His main attraction was his close relationship with the government, but he has just ruined that," said one of these people.
Although Mr. Weber is expected to be succeeded at the Bundesbank quickly—with Ms. Merkel's chief economics adviser Jens Weidmann seen as his possible successor—the ECB situation may take months to resolve, German officials said. "We are starting from scratch," one said..'' THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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