ECB's super stimulus salvo sends stocks, euro higher
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LONDON (Reuters) - World markets got another shot of energy on Thursday as the European Central Bank (ECB) ramped up its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) to 1.35 trillion euros.European equities [.EU], oil [O/R] and euro markets [/FRX] had been lower before the ECB said it would raise the programme from 750 billion euros, extend it until June 2021 at the earliest and pledged to reinvest the proceeds until at least the end of 2022. [/FRX] This was beyond what most analysts had..