Tag: Christine Lagarde
What matters at Thursday’s interest rate meeting
View of the ECB tower In April, inflation in the euro area was 7.0 percent. (Photo: AP) Dusseldorf, Frankfurt In Germany, it is rare for government officials to comment on…
Price pressure in Germany decreases slightly
Frankfurt The inflation rate in Germany continued to fall slightly in April. Consumer prices increased by 7.2 percent compared to the same month last year. This was announced by the…
Price pressure in Germany decreases slightly
Frankfurt The inflation rate in Germany continued to fall slightly in April. Consumer prices increased by 7.2 percent compared to the same month last year. This was announced by the…
Investors expect stronger rate hikes from the ECB again
ECB headquarters in Frankfurt The central bank is likely to raise interest rates further in May. The only question is: to what extent? (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Market players are once…
High corporate profits are driving inflation in the euro area
European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main The profits of companies in the euro area have risen sharply recently. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Inflation in the euro area is falling, but…
Employee union accuses the ECB of bias to the detriment of employees
ECB headquarters in Frankfurt The central bank’s position on wage developments is a matter of controversy. (Photo: IMAGO/Hannelore Föster) Frankfurt In the European Central Bank (ECB), the issue of wages…
Prices in the euro area rise by 6.9 percent in March
Fruits and vegetables in the supermarket Frankfurt Inflation in the euro area fell significantly in March. Consumer prices rose 6.9% percent compared to the same month last year. This was…
Inflation in Germany falls to 7.4 percent in March
inflation The European Central Bank is aiming for an inflation rate of two percent for the euro area. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The inflation rate in Germany fell in March. Consumer…
World economy between Scylla and Charybdis
The author Volker Wieland is Executive Director of the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability at Goethe University Frankfurt. Like the two mythical ancient monsters on the Strait of Messina,…
Betting against Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank logo Price losses at the largest German bank have fueled fears of the banking crisis spreading. (Photo: AP) Frankfurt/New York Those were dramatic hours. Last Friday, the prices…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly recap
Good morning everyone, last Monday our morning conference started with a picture and a sentence: “At the moment the Dax is falling quite steeply”, wrote our team leader Investment &…
Lagarde fights against loss of confidence
Christine Lagarde regularly comes to the European Parliament, but this Monday the appearance of the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) is anything but a routine appointment. The emergency…
The banking crisis could dissuade the Fed from its interest rate course
Jerome Powell The head of the central bank is under pressure after the turbulence in the banking market. (Photo: Reuters) Denver, Frankfort Larry Summers is not known to be a…
What danger banks and markets face from the turnaround in interest rates
crisis of confidence The many turbulences on the financial market are increasing concerns about a new banking crisis. With the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank last weekend, fears of…
What danger banks and markets face from the turnaround in interest rates
crisis of confidence The many turbulences on the financial market are increasing concerns about a new banking crisis. With the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank last weekend, fears of…
ECB rate hike: These are the reactions
ECB President Christine Lagarde “Inflation is likely to stay too high for too long.” (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Christine Lagarde and her colleagues on the ECB Governing Council lived up to…
Markets expect interest rate hikes to end – decisions and reactions
ECB President Christine Lagarde “Inflation is likely to stay too high for too long.” (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Christine Lagarde and her colleagues on the ECB Governing Council lived up to…
ECB in a dilemma – the struggle for new interest rate hikes
Good morning dear readers, The situation in which the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde found herself on Thursday evening is commonly described as a dilemma. Their…
ECB in a dilemma – the struggle for new interest rate hikes
Good morning dear readers, The situation in which the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde found herself on Thursday evening is commonly described as a dilemma. Their…
Markets expect interest rate hikes to end – decisions and reactions
ECB President Christine Lagarde “Inflation is likely to stay too high for too long.” (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Christine Lagarde and her colleagues on the ECB Governing Council lived up to…