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Any ECB rate hike above zero will depend on data, Panetta says

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank is on course to lift its interest rates out of negati...

1st July, 2022

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Another inflation record firms case for bigger ECB rate hikes

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation hit yet another record high in June as price pressures bro...

1st July, 2022

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Exclusive-ECB to channel cash from north to south in bid to cap spreads – sources

By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will b...

30th June, 2022

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Recession fears creep into ECB thinking at summer conference

By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymake...

30th June, 2022

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ECB to ask banks to calculate with recession risk: Enria

(Reuters) -The European Central Bank plans to ask euro zone lenders to factor a possible recession i...

30th June, 2022

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French inflation in June hit record high of 6.5% – preliminary figures

PARIS (Reuters) -French inflation climbed further from the previous month to a record high of 6.5%,...

30th June, 2022

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ECB will keep countries on straight and narrow even if it buys their debt – Lagarde

By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) -The European Central Bank’s upcom...

28th June, 2022

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ECB support should be limitless if fragmentation unwarranted: Wunsch

By Balazs Koranyi SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – The European Central Bank should offer limitless supp...

28th June, 2022

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ECB to drain cash in offset to new yield-capping scheme -sources

By Francesco Canepa SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will likely drain cash fr...

28th June, 2022

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ECB’s Centeno says no yield spread goal in anti-fragmentation tool

By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – The new instrument being designed by the European Central Ban...

24th June, 2022

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New ECB bond buys shouldn’t get in way of fighting inflation

By Jesús Aguado and Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) -The European Central Bank’s tool to combat rising...

22nd June, 2022

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New ECB tool must backstop commitment to euro – Villeroy

PARIS (Reuters) – The European Central Bank’s planned instrument against financial fragmentation bet...

20th June, 2022