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EU Quantitative Easing
EU Quantitative Easing
Full Name
EU Quantitative Easing
Event Type
Monetary Event
Location
Europe
The
European Central Bank
embarked on a
Quantitative Easing
program starting in 2015
More about EU Quantitative Easing
Notes
Began buying sovereign
bonds
in 2015
Began buying
corporate bonds
in 2016
Expected to end in late 2018 or 2019 (as of Dec 2018)
Grew
ECB
balance sheet
by 4.65 Trillion Euros (up 117%) (30%
EU
GDP)
Had the impact of driving down rates - to negative
interest rate
territory (and below inflations)