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European Central Bank likely to end its negative interest rate experiment
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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.
Top central bankers: Economy needs help despite vaccine news
Nov 13, 2020
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Congress “may need to do more” to cushion the blow from the pandemic.
How Europe can support its economy as the COVID-19 outbreak grows
Mar 11, 2020
President Christine Lagarde has said the ECB is "ready to take appropriate and targeted measures" to address the crisis.
Mario Draghi's defining moment
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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.
Where the European Central Bank and the Fed differ
Oct 24, 2019
To begin with, the mandates for both are different.
Could U.S. interest rates go negative like Europe's?
Sep 13, 2019
After the European Central Bank announced a rate cut, Trump urged the Fed to do the same.
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ECB to end stimulus. Is Europe's economy out of the woods?
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Jun 14, 2018
The European Central Bank announced today it is doing something the Federal Reserve has been doing for several years now: It’s taking its foot off the gas pedal of the economy — in this case, the eurozone economy. Specifically, it’s ending its practice of buying up bonds. So is the eurozone back on track? Click […]
Is Germany a currency manipulator?
Mar 2, 2017
Europe's most powerful economy has done better from the euro than some in the European Union.
A transatlantic central banking policy disparity
Mar 10, 2016
While Europeans ease, Americans ponder another rate hike