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Could oil price surges derail the ECB’s plans for a rate cut in June?
Latest developments in the Middle East raise concerns about a potential broader conflict and its global economic ramifications. Key worries…
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ECB’s Lagarde urges private capital to boost innovation in Europe
At a Council on Foreign Relations meeting on Wednesday, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde stressed the importance of private…
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Friday Briefing: High(er) for longer
Opening his team’s monthly economic and financial analysis, ING global head of macro research Carsten Brzeski suggested their base case…
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‘A tough call’: Bank of England dovish move signals ‘higher for longer’ rates policy
For the first time in almost two years, the BoE opted to leave borrowing costs at 5.25% today (21 September),…
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Jackson Hole recap: Fed rate hikes likely on hold for ‘several meetings’
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell set a high bar for additional interest-rate hikes, economists said Sunday in their commentary on…
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ECB meets expectations with 25bps hike
The new headline rate is the highest for the ECB since May 2001, and comes as inflation in the bloc…
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ECB’s Lagarde: Further rate hikes ‘still in the pipeline’
Speaking at the ‘Deutscher Sparkassentag 2023′ event in Hanover yesterday (1 June), she said inflation is still too high and…
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Bailey splits opinion on hikes with ‘specifically vague’ speech
In a speech given at Brunswick Group’s Cost of Living Conference yesterday (1 March), the central bank’s governor was uncharacteristically…
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Is stagflation the future? Depends on your definition
At the end of February, just after the start of the war in Ukraine, it began to look as if…
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BlackRock Investment Institute: ‘Pockets of value’ restored in bond markets
In a note published yesterday evening (9 May), BII said the commodities price shock and growth slowdown in China also…
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