Monetary economics has not broken down in the Eurozone & a gradual recovery from the bloc's debt crisis will allow interest rates eventually to normalise
Promise protracted stimulus to aid a still fragile recovery, and dismissed any talk of tapering the programme away
Leaves interest rate unchanged
US and European shares have been rising and bond prices falling as investors expect a Trump administration to cut taxes and spend more
Inflation has missed the ECB's 2% target for three and a half years and is expect to undershoot until late 2018 at the earliest
ECB president Mario Draghi kept the deposit rate at minus 0.4% and maintained ECB's guidance for rates to stay at their current or lower levels for an extended period
The survey was conducted in September
The pan-European STOXX index fell 0.7 per cent
Gold plunged 3.3 per cent on Tuesday, its biggest tumble since September 2013
The ECB is increasingly aware of the limits of quantitative easing and considers the programme effective
ECB has cut rates aggressively, giving banks super cheap loans and pumping over a trillion euros into economy through assets purchases
With unemployment at 10%, govts holding back on spending as they reduce debt piles, and companies producing far less than they can, growth cannot take off, putting a lid on inflation
Growth and inflation remain anaemic and ECB is already losing much of its firepower
ECB kept its rate on bank overnight deposits, generally seen as its primary interest rate tool, at -0.40%.
The new threshold will be 25,000 euros, as it is for all other types of credit
The ECB said potential growth among some key emerging economies has weakened, raising the risk of a "sizable" negative impact on global growth
The main refinancing rate, which determines the cost of credit in the economy was unchanged at 0%
Bankers and analysts say the policy change is conductive in the long run for companies to use the ECB route
The ECB seeks to have inflation running at just below 2%, something it has not had since early 2013
ECB chief Mario Draghi suggested it was running out of room to cut interest rates, even if other stimulus options remained