A Bloomberg poll of economists casts light onto expectations of what actions the European Central Bank will be taking in the near future, the news agency reports. The majority of the economists surveyed believed that the bank would stay true to its word and leave interest rates at their current historic lows of 0.5 percent through at least mid-2015. This would constitute the “extended period” to which Mario Draghi, the head of the bank, referred when he put in place the bank’s forward guidance this summer, in which he pledged to keep interest rates at their current levels or below until a recovery was in full swing. ... (full story)