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“Global QE” to slow only gradually

Taking account of the ECB’s decision yesterday and of recent changes to our forecasts for Japan, we still think that the scale of central bank asset purchases under QE programmes in advanced economies will slow steadily. But it will be a couple of years before the balance sheets in aggregate begin to shrink.

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