The European Central Bank will start buying government bonds from next week as it seeks to speed up the eurozone’s stalling economic recovery.
The Frankfurt-based bank on Thursday (5 March) announced it would purchase €60 billion of bonds per month, with the programme set to run until September 2016.
The decision to pump a total of €1.14 trillion into the eurozone economy was made in January.
Prices across the eurozone have now fallen for three consecutive months, raising ...
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