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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.
Until this summer, the ECB had been in the thick of an eight-year experiment with negative interest rates.
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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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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.
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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.
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