As certain key economic statistics are rising in the Eurozone, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced today that they were dropping interest rates “to ward of deflation.”
ECB also launches asset backed securities purchase plan
The ECB also announced they were engaging in asset backed securities, turning to a “quantitative easing” like stimulus program similar to that of the US Federal Reserve.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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