Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former supervisory board member of the European Central Bank and a senior fellow at Bocconi University and the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE Experience suggests that abundant and cheap money […]
The European Central Bank has been too slow to cut interest rates to help the Eurozone’s stagnating economy, many of the economists polled by the Financial Times have warned. Almost half of the 72 Eurozone economists surveyed — 46 per cent — said the central bank had “fallen behind the curve” and was out of sync with […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a reason why coins have, for millennia, carried the likenesses of rulers: controlling the supply of legal tender is a pouvoir régalien — a power at the core of statecraft and geopolitical influence. […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Central Bank holds its final policy meeting of 2024 on Thursday and is widely expected to deliver its fourth interest rate cut of the year, so investors will be looking for clues about […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Central Bank cut interest rates last month to avert unnecessary damage to the economy, with policymakers taking the view they could pause a December cut if activity picked up, minutes of the meeting […]
After the European Central Bank cut interest rates for the third time this year — and inflation fell below target — all eyes are now on policymakers’ next move. A slew of Governing Council members spoke to CNBC’s Karen Tso at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. this week. We asked them […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Back-to-back reductions in borrowing costs by the European Central Bank are “not necessarily an indication” of faster rate cuts to come, Slovenia’s central bank governor has said, arguing that its next actions will be guided […]
Christine Lagarde says Eurozone’s central bankers are close to ‘breaking the neck’ of soaring price pressures
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Central Bank needs to stand ready to step up interest rate cuts if its economic forecasts prove too optimistic, its chief economist Philip Lane told policymakers at its most recent meeting. The official […]
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A recent string of indicators pointing to the Eurozone’s slowing growth will probably lead to a 0.25 per cent interest rate cut by the European Central Bank next month, economists predict. The long-standing consensus among […]
