ECB QE Monitor - February 2021
Tuesday 09 February 2021
Research / Market
- In January, the ECB bought €53bn under the PEPP and €17.9bn under the APP.
- The ECB's balance sheet is now equivalent to 61% of euro area GDP compared to 39% at the start of 2020.
- PEPP:
- Pandemic bond-buying program was raised by €500bn euros to a total of €1,850 billion and extended by nine months to at least the end of March 2022.
- The ECB already used up around €810bn or 43% of its €1.85tn PEPP envelope.
- The pace of PEPP purchases in January was stable compared to the last 3 months and remained around € 50/60 billion.
- The ECB also published the bi-monthly detailed split for PEPP(Dec.2020-Jan.2021 at this release).