Investors fret as ECB looks poised to get more negative
For investors, one question dwarfs all the others this week: How low can you go? The European Central Bank is expected on Thursday to push a key interest rate even further into negative territory, [...]
ECB studies stimulus options that won’t end up hurting banks
One week before a long-awaited stimulus decision, European Central Bank officials are privately deliberating over how to enhance their monetary policy stance without maiming its transmission. Committees studying how to mitigate the impact on [...]
Eurozone prices fall, piling pressure on ECB
Eurozone consumer prices were lower in February than a year earlier, a setback for the European Central Bank in its lengthening struggle to prevent the currency bloc’s slide into chronic deflation. The ECB’s governing [...]
ECB on course to take more aggressive action on monetary easing
The European Central Bank is on course for more aggressive monetary easing to boost flagging growth and weak inflation, amid fresh warnings about the outlook for the global economy.Mario Draghi, the ECB president, has [...]
ECB may finally deal a deathblow to the 500 Euro bill
Is the end nearing for the 500-euro note, beloved of gangsters, money launderers and tax evaders? The likelihood that the valuable bill could soon be struck out of the euro family may be rising [...]
ECB will not ‘surrender’ to low inflation, Draghi says
The European Central Bank will not surrender to low inflation, Mario Draghi vowed, reinforcing his case for ECB action next month to counter deteriorating global conditions. The ECB president made his remarks in the [...]