The European Central Bank cut interest rates on Thursday and kept the door open to further policy easing as concerns over lacklustre economic growth supersede worries about persistent inflation.
Despite the concerns over France, the consensus among economists was that the ECB will not need to intervene in euro area bond markets in 2025. Just 19 per cent consider it likely that the central ...
After a week of focus on U.S. politics following President Trump’s inauguration, focus switches back to monetary policy, with an interest-rate decision due by the Federal Reserve as well as the ...
The timing of the plebiscite is bad news for the ECB, which is scheduled to start running down the debt pile accumulated by its pandemic bond-buying program this month. Given the scope for market ...
It hit 2.03% last week, its lowest since Oct. 1. Bond yields move inversely with prices. Yields have fallen across most of the major euro zone economies in recent weeks as the bloc's growth outlook ...
QE is the process by which the ECB prints Euros and uses them to buy assets – usually government or corporate bonds – from banks and other financial institutions. QE usually results in a ...