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Increase in ECB QE underwhelming so far

The account of March’s ECB meeting showed that the decision to increase asset purchases was agreed by all members, but that some were reluctant to do much more. In practice, purchases haven’t risen very far since then. Given that the Bank could have ramped them up much further, it seems that policymakers are broadly content with the current level of yields.

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