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ECB slows pandemic stimulus as eurozone bounces back

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European Central Bank took a small step towards scaling back pandemic-era stimulus Thursday, but sought to reassure markets of its ongoing support as the fast-spreading Delta variant clouds the eurozone recovery.

The ECB's 25-member governing council said it would slow the pace of its massive monthly bond purchases, as economic activity bounces back and inflation surges higher.

The 1.85-trillion-euro ($2.2 trillion) pandemic emergency bond-purchasing programme (PEPP) is the ECB's main tool to cushion the impact of the coronavirus crisis and is aimed at keeping credit cheap in the eurozone. "The governing council judges that favourable financing conditions can be maintained with a moderately lower pace of net asset purchases under the

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