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European Central Bank
Is the eurozone heading for another debt crisis?
Jul 20, 2022
As borrowing costs rise across the 19 nations that use the euro, worries about the currency bloc's stability grow.
How far will the European Central Bank go to curb inflation?
Jul 20, 2022
Like the U.S., Europe is also trying to cope with surging inflation. But so far, the ECB has avoided hiking interest rates as a way to deal with it. That looks like it's about to change.
Inflation's a global problem. Curbing it may send some countries' economies into recession.
Jun 16, 2022
The U.S. economy might have an easier time achieving a "soft landing" than economies in Europe and elsewhere.
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.
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.
For public good, not for profit.
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.
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.