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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.
Greeks in crisis
People of Athens remain calm during debt crisis
by Kai Ryssdal and Stephen Beard
Jul 8, 2015
The government gives cash-strapped citizens a free ride on subways.
What’s QE and the ECB got to do with you and me?
by Dan Bobkoff
Jan 22, 2015
How "quantitative easing" and "European Central Bank" may bring cash to U.S. shores.
Move aside emerging markets, investors are now eyeing Europe
by Stephen Beard
Sep 9, 2013
Investors have been shifting away from emerging markets, but where are they going instead? The answer may be Europe.
BBC World Service
EU unemployment hits 12.2%, 'Blockupy' activists protest ECB
by Steve Evans
May 31, 2013
European unemployment hit a new record high in April. 12.2 percent, or about 20 million people, across the 17 countries that use the euro are out of work.
European Debt Crisis
European Central Bank cuts interest rate to record low
by Stephen Beard
May 2, 2013
The European Central Bank (ECB) has cut interest rates to a record low of 0.5 percent. But how much stimulus can the ECB really provide?
BBC World Service
European Central Bank to Cyprus: Now or never
by Marketplace Contributor
Mar 21, 2013
Cyprus has until Monday to come up with a new bailout package after the parliament rejected the initial plan that called for a controversial tax on the country’s bank deposits.
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European Debt Crisis
European Central Bank pressures Cyprus for new bailout deal
by Stephen Beard
Mar 21, 2013
The European Central Bank has given the Cyprus just a few days to come up with a new bailout deal after the Cypriot parliament rejected a controversial tax on bank deposits as part of its original bailout plan.
European leaders agree ECB should supervise big banks
by Stephen Beard
Dec 13, 2012
European finance ministers struck a major new deal over their debt crisis. They agreed that the European Central Bank -- Europe’s equivalent of the Fed -- should take over the supervision of the continent’s biggest banks.
European Debt Crisis
ECB keeps Greek debt secrets under wraps
by Stephen Beard
Nov 30, 2012
The European Central Bank has won a legal battle against Bloomberg News to keep some of the ECB’s internal documents about Greece's debt private.