On Thursday 13 December, the European Central Bank confirmed that the quantitative easing (QE) operation for the massive repurchase of mainly public securities will be completed at the end of December 2018.
Since November, the monthly rate of redemptions via QE has been reduced to €15 billion, whereas it had reached €60 billion at the launch of the operation in March 2015 to combat the risk of deflation after the financial crisis (see EUROPE 11236).
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