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      • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
        EU financial regulation
        ECB warns of tougher fines for banks that ‘drag their feet’ on fixing flaws

        Top official points out need to supervise climate and systemic risks

        The ECB building in Frankfurt
      • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
        Capital markets
        Investors bet on rapid ECB rate cuts as economic outlook darkens

        Markets are pricing in six rate reductions in the eurozone next year

        Two pedestrians walk up a stairway near the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
      • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
        European banks
        Eurozone banks ‘greenwash’ loans to big polluters, ECB says

        Lenders are ‘reluctant to disrupt’ relations with large CO₂ emitters

        Cooling towers and pylons
      • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
        Global inflation
        Inflation across OECD countries drops to lowest rate in two years

        Data shows headline price growth declined in 28 out of 38 member countries between September and October

      • Monday, 4 December, 2023
        German economy
        German companies cut investment plans as economic gloom deepens

        Many energy-intensive industries consider relocating operations abroad

        A VW plant in Germany
      • Monday, 4 December, 2023
        Poland
        Poland’s central bank turns to ECB in spat with Tusk

        Incoming prime minister has called for removal of national lender’s chief in bid to oust PiS loyalists

        ECB president Christine Lagarde with Donald Tusk in 2018.
      • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
        Markets
        Did US hiring accelerate in November? 

        Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

        Jobseekers wait to speak to prospective employers at a career fair in Los Angeles, US on November 2023
      • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
        Global inflation
        Slowing inflation piles pressure on central banks to pivot

        As clamour grows for interest rate cuts, investors fear acting too slowly could harm already weak economies

      • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
        Eurozone inflation
        Eurozone inflation falls more than expected to 2.4%

        Tensions rise between investors pricing in interest rate cuts and central banks warning of persistent price pressures

        A shopper pays with a euro banknote in a fruit market
      • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
        Eurozone inflation
        Falling German and Spanish inflation raises hopes of ECB rate cuts

        Price growth in large eurozone economies lower than expected

        Aachen Christmas market
      • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
        News in-depthGlobal Economy
        Inflation falls mask bumps on the ‘last mile’ for central banks

        As economies enter disinflation, a stand-off over rates has emerged between markets and monetary policymakers

        Montage of Christine Lagarde, Jay Powell and Andrew Bailey and chart
      • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
        Eurozone economy
        Mortgage rebound slows pace of eurozone credit contraction

        Rising interest rates dried up lending in the credit-reliant single currency bloc

        Clothes are hung out to dry on the balconies of residential apartments in Lisbon
      • Monday, 27 November, 2023
        European Central Bank
        ECB to discuss earlier end to bond purchases, says Christine Lagarde

        Pandemic-era €1.7tn stimulus programme had been due to wind down by end 2024

        ECB president Christine Lagarde
      • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
        Markets
        Is eurozone inflation still falling?

        Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

      • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
        Eurozone interest rates
        ECB policymakers open to another interest rate rise if needed

        Minutes show central bank’s governing council recognised need to avoid ‘unwarranted loosening of financial conditions’

        The European Central Bank headquarters pictured next to the river Main in Frankfurt
      • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
        Eurozone economy
        Easing of eurozone business woes allays fears of deep recession

        Purchasing managers’ index shows slight improvement in companies’ activity levels

        A man working in a factory
      • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
        European banks
        ECB warns of ‘early signs of stress’ at eurozone banks as default rates rise

        Stability review notes sector’s resilience but urges lenders to increase provisions to cover rising loan losses

        Luis de Guindos, vice-president of the European Central Bank
      • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
        European Central Bank
        Lagarde warns ECB ‘not done’ in inflation fight

        European Central Bank president pushes back against expectations of spring rate cuts

        Christine Lagarde speaks at an event in Germany on Tuesday
      • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
        Commercial property
        Commercial property’s debt burden exceeds pre-2008 level in eurozone, warns ECB

        Stability review warns of contagion risk for wider financial sector from surging losses in real estate

        A residential and commercial project in central Berlin, Germany
      • Monday, 20 November, 2023
        Italian economy
        Italian bonds rally after Moody’s credit rating reprieve

        Ten-year borrowing cost falls to 2-month low after Rome avoids downgrade to ‘junk’ status

        A delicatessen truck at a street market in Milan
      • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
        Eurozone economy
        What will the Fed minutes say about the path for US interest rates?

        Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

        A montage of the US Federal Reserve building, shoppers in Frankfurt and Jeremy Hunt
      • Friday, 17 November, 2023
        Deutsche Bundesbank
        Bundesbank looks to aid savers by cutting lenders’ interest payments

        Central bank chief Joachim Nagel’s position at odds with other ECB policymakers

        Joachim Nagel
      • Friday, 17 November, 2023
        European Central Bank
        Europe needs its own SEC, says Lagarde

        ECB president says consolidation among region’s exchanges would plug substantial funding gap

        Christine Lagarde
      • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
        News in-depthGerman politics
        Germany’s top court puts ‘debt brake’ on Scholz coalition

        Karlsruhe verdict lands future spending plans and government’s solidarity in peril

        Olaf Scholz
      • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
        German politics
        German top court strikes down €60bn off-budget climate fund

        Judges say government’s fund intended to subsidise chip factories and upgrade railways is illegal

        Members of second Senate of the German Constitutional Court
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