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Not tapering yet, despite chunky forecast upgrades

Having left the pace of its PEPP purchases unchanged and made big upgrades to its GDP forecasts, we think the ECB will start to taper the PEPP later this year. But we think it will eventually make an offsetting increase to other asset purchases and will leave its deposit rate unchanged for longer than most anticipate.

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