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ECB to continue hinting at 2018 taper

We expect the ECB to renew its hints of future QE tapering at its forthcoming meeting, despite the modest tightening of financial market conditions that such hints have caused already. We still see the Bank tapering its purchases to zero in the first half of next year. But it will not commit fully to such action just yet and it is likely to stress that, even once asset purchases are over, interest rates will remain at current levels for quite some time.

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