
What is the ECB’s Corporate Bond purchase program?
After the ECB ventured into the world of quantitative easing as a policy response to deflationary threats and lack of growth in the Eurozone, the markets are abuzz with the latest venture, known as corporate bond purchases starting June 8th. So what are corporate bond purchases how are corporate bond purchases different from regular bond purchases and what impact will it have on the Eurozone economy? This and more questions are answered in this article.
ECB's QE - Timeline and Context
The European Central bank, embarked on Quantitative Easing when it announced on January 2015 that the central bank would purchase sovereign bonds to stimulate growth in the European economies. While initially starting with a monthly bond purchase program of 60 billion euros, the ECB quickly ramped up their ...