Softly, softly...the ECB is tweaking its forward guidance

Our reading of the minutes of the ECB’s October policy meeting is that the Bank has begun to prepare the ground for an end to its asset purchases. Before long, the ECB seems set to stop promising to buy assets until the inflation target has been met and instead make a vaguer pledge to keep policy loose.

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