FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank (ECB) on Monday is set to begin its long-awaited 1.1 trillion euro ($1.2 trillion) quantitative easing program to stimulate growth and ward off deflation across the eurozone.

The program calls for the eurozone central bank to buy around 60 billion euros of public and private bonds each month -- a policy it will apply until at least September 2016.

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