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Markets Stumble After Taper Tantrum European Style

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Assets in Europe received their first “taper tantrum”-style jolt on Tuesday afternoon with a report that policymakers at the European Central Bank (ECB) were looking at winding back its trillion-dollar bond-buying program.

Bloomberg cited officials at the euro zone’s central bank saying that the 80 billion euro-a-month program could be tapered in steps of 10 billion euros before the official conclusion of its quantitative easing. Although, it heavily caveated that view with suggestions it could still be extended past the current end-date of March 2017.

A spokesperson for the ECB said that the Governing Council “has not discussed these topics”, which President Mario Draghi has previously iterated. And market watchers just weren’t buying the news either.

via CNBC

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Alfonso Esparza

Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse
Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
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