As announced in October (see EUROPE B12592A3), on Thursday 10 December the European Central Bank (ECB) recalibrated several monetary policy instruments, for example by increasing by €500 billion the intervention capacity of the PEPP operation for the massive repurchase of mainly public assets and extending it until the end of March 2022. The objective: to maintain favourable financing conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic until the economy of the euro area stabilises with the...