ECB Bond-Buying Finale on Track as Growth Set to Bounce Back

ECB Bond-Buying Finale on Track as Growth Set to Bounce Back
The skyline with its financial district (L) and the headquarter of the European Central Bank (ECB,R) are photographed on early evening in Frankfurt, Germany,on Sept. 18, 2018. Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
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BENGALURU—Eurozone growth will bounce back to a faster yet still modest pace this quarter, allowing the European Central Bank to stop buying bonds next month as planned, despite economic and political fears, a Reuters poll found.

While the eurozone economy unexpectedly grew at its weakest pace in more than four years—just 0.2 percent last quarter—the Nov 8-13 poll of nearly 90 economists predicted growth would pick up again to 0.4 percent this quarter.