ECB may buy €40bn per year after CBPP3 ends

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ECB may buy €40bn per year after CBPP3 ends

The covered bond purchase programme is scheduled to end in March 2017. However, as maturing bonds will be reinvested, the European Central Bank could end up buying up to €40bn per year just to keep its portfolio from shrinking, according to new analysis from Crédit Agricole CIB research.

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