ECB will need to increase its bond purchases again

The ECB’s record pace of asset purchases is proving insufficient to bring bond spreads down. We think that it will need to step up the pace of purchases further, as well as expand the overall size of the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme well beyond the current €750bn.

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