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Analysis-Investors stick to bets on early end to ECB hikes as uncertainty grows

By Yoruk Bahceli and Naomi Rovnick AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Investors held tight to bets that banking j...

16th March, 2023

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Instant View: ECB sticks with big rate hike even as bank fears roil markets

(Reuters) – The European Central Bank pushed through another big increase in interest rates on Thurs...

16th March, 2023

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Big ECB hike adds fuel to the banking sector fire

By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) – Euro zone bank shares hit a ten-week low on Thursday after the Eur...

16th March, 2023

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Barclays: ECB more likely to hike rates by 25 bps rather than 50 bps or no hike

LONDON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is more likely to raise interest rates by a modest 25 b...

16th March, 2023

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French inflation revised upwards in February to 7.3% – final figures

PARIS (Reuters) – French annual inflation rose to a revised 7.3% in February from 7.0% in January, p...

15th March, 2023

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Asian shares gain as fears about rapid Fed hikes, bank crisis fade

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian equities rose sharply on Wednesday, tracking a relief...

15th March, 2023

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Markets start signalling Fed may be going too far – Amundi

By Yoruk Bahceli (Reuters) – Recent moves in bond and equity markets show that investors are startin...

9th March, 2023

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Wall Street drops, Treasury yields gyrate on Fed Chairman Powell’s remarks

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks retreated and benchmark Treasury yields wavered on...

7th March, 2023

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Oil prices stable, heading for weekly gain

By Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices held steady on Friday, poised to register a weekly g...

3rd March, 2023

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Euro zone recovery gathers pace, allays fears of recession-PMI

LONDON (Reuters) – The recovery in euro zone business activity gathered pace last month as growth ac...

3rd March, 2023

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Morgan Stanley, others now forecast 4% peak for key ECB rate

By Sudip Kar-Gupta (Reuters) -Morgan Stanley and two other investment banks have revised their forec...

3rd March, 2023

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Rising neutral rates: what is happening, and why does it matter?

By Michael Saunders, Senior Policy Advisor at Oxford Economics Over the last year, neutral rates hav...

28th February, 2023