Tag: ECB
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Watch: ECB President Christine Lagarde speaks after rate decision
[The stream is slated to start at 8:45 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is due to give a press conference following the bank’s latest monetary policy decision. The ECB on Thursday held interest rates steady for the second…
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2024 Set To Be The Year That The ECB Hike Cycle Is Felt
MicroStockHub/iStock via Getty Images By Bert Colijn, Senior Economist, Eurozone; Carsten Brzeski, Global Head of Macro The end of the hike cycle is most likely here. The ECB has raised interest rates aggressively – from -0.5% to 4% in just over a year. With inflation coming down quickly and the economy stagnating, it is hard…
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Feeling Really Rervous? How Eurozone FRNs Protect Against Higher For Longer ECB Rates
dem10 By Robin Marshall, Director, Global Investment Research After G7 policy rate increases in 2023, market expectations adjusted to the notion of ‘higher for longer’ on inflation and short interest rates, in Europe particularly. The initial causes of higher G7 inflation were disruption to supply chains after Covid, and higher commodity and energy prices after…