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After posting steep losses in the previous days, European shares rebound by about 2% supported by ECB comments that they will start buying private sector debt in the coming days. US Equities opened in positive territory too, gaining 1%.
The ECB will start buying private‐sector debt instruments within days in order to steer the balance sheet of the ECB to higher levels and improve the transmission to the real economy, ECB’s Coeuré said.
Russian President Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Poroshenko failed to make any progress in solving the crisis in Ukraine in a meeting in Milan today, which according to the Kremlin was full of misunderstandings and disagreements.
The People’s Bank of China is set to inject about 200 billion yuan in three‐month loans into five or six mediumsized listed banks to keep liquidity ample and support the slowing Chinese economy, four sources said today, according to Reuters.
Bank of England’s Chief Economist Haldane said today that benchmark interest rates can remain lower for longer without endangering the inflation target due to slower global growth, heightened geopolitical and financial risks and the weak pipeline of inflationary pressures.
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