Worst quarter in several years in Q4
Fell by $4trn since January 2018
QE expected to finish at year end
With the European Central Bank set to stop new quantitative easing at the end of 2018 and market chatter about an interest rate increase in 2019, have prospects for the spluttering European economy and financial markets taken a turn for the worse?
Tit-for-tat rhetoric doing little to ease tensions within bloc
Trade war tensions a distraction