ECB boosts Pepp but sov debt threats remain
The European Central Bank delivered a welcome — and bigger than expected — increase to both the size and scale of its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (Pepp) on Thursday, causing eurozone periphery spreads to ratchet in while staving off concerns of debt sustainability for the moment. Lewis McLellan reports.
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