27/08/2015 (Agence Europe) - Quantitative easing: nearly €280 billion of public assets purchased since March. On Friday 21 August, the European Central Bank had purchased €279.76 billion of securities from national and supranational entities, according to data published on the ECB's website. In operation since March, European quantitative easing aims to purchase €60 billion of public and private securities every month until September 2016. The next meeting of the ECB governing board...