FRANKFURT: The combined balance sheet of the European Central Bank and the euro zone's 19 national central banks fell by 4.9 billion euros to 2.344 trillion euros ($2.5 trillion) in the week to April 17, the ECB said on Tuesday.
The ECB is rolling out scheme to buy government bonds and other assets known as "quantitative easing" to pump a trillion euros into the economy in order to lift inflation towards its target of just under 2 percent.
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