ECB begins cautious taper while holding rates

PEPP will end by March 2022

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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The European Central Bank has begun withdrawing its €70bn Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP), reducing it in the first quarter of next year and ending it by March 2022.

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