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If the Federal Reserve waits to cut interest rates, will the European Central Bank follow suit?

by Kristin Schwab
Apr 11, 2024
Inflation’s up again in the U.S. while the EU is edging closer to its target. That brings the ECB to a bit of a fork in the road.
If the U.S. and EU economies are diverging, the central banks may pursue different policies, said finance professor Bill English.
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This week, central banks will decide what to do (or not do) with interest rates

by Kimberly Adams
Dec 11, 2023
The Federal Reserve and others will update monetary policy, balancing inflation with the recession risk. Investors hope for rate cuts.
The European Central Bank is one of several economic policymaking agencies around the world that will meet to update their monetary strategies.
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European Central Bank makes unprecedented rate hike to fight inflation

by Lily Jamali
Sep 8, 2022
It's raised its benchmark deposit rate by 0.75% — to 0.75% — and may raise further. But Europe is also facing recession worries.
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Is the eurozone heading for another debt crisis?

by Stephen Beard
Jul 20, 2022
As borrowing costs rise across the 19 nations that use the euro, worries about the currency bloc's stability grow.
The European Central Bank plans to tighten interest rates to battle inflation, but that could burden Europe's weaker economies.
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European Central Bank announces plans to raise its key interest rate

by Lily Jamali
Jun 9, 2022
It'll also end its large-scale bond-buying program. Central bankers are trying to tame inflation — like their U.S. counterparts at the Federal Reserve.
The European Central Bank said Thursday it plans to start raising its key interest rate next month.
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European Central Bank likely to end its negative interest rate experiment

by Lily Jamali
May 23, 2022
Until the ECB became the first major central bank to try it, making interest rates negative seemed like defying economic gravity.
When the European Central Bank first pushed negative interest rates in 2014, it helped push the value of the euro lower and make European goods more attractive to foreign buyers.
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Mario Draghi's defining moment

by Amy Scott
Oct 30, 2019
The departing head of the European Central Bank vowed in 2012 to "do whatever it takes" to save the euro.
The President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi addresses the European Parliament in Brussels, on December 1, 2011.
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Where the European Central Bank and the Fed differ

by Kimberly Adams
Oct 24, 2019
To begin with, the mandates for both are different.
A huge Euro logo is seen in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Europe takes key interest rate further below zero

by Amy Scott
Dec 3, 2015
The European Central Bank has cut its main target interest rate to 0.3 percent.
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People of Athens remain calm during debt crisis

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 8, 2015
The government gives cash-strapped citizens a free ride on subways.
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