ECB ends asset purchases, on watch for future risks

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank officially ended on Thursday its lavish post-crisis asset purchase scheme but promised to keep feeding stimulus into an economy struggling with an unexpected slowdown and political turmoil. Having long flagged the end of quantitative easing, the ECB had little choice but to stop the bond buys. But it signalled it would take its time before tightening policy any further given slower growth, a looming trade war, the prospect of a hard Brexit and..