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  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Eurozone inflation
    Eurozone inflation hits record 8.6% in June

    Sharp acceleration of food and energy prices intensifies ECB debate over speed of planned interest rate rises

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    We need to talk about Fed liabilities

    Quantitative tightening has triggered a reserves flight from US commercial banks to money-market funds. Now what?

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    A soft landing is becoming a distant dream

    Aeroplane metaphors do little to disguise the fact that central bankers are struggling with the inflationary overshoot

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Renminbi
    Central banks look to China’s renminbi to diversify foreign currency reserves

    Dollar’s dominance could gradually decline as a result of geopolitical flare-ups, UBS survey shows

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Sveriges Riksbank
    Sweden’s Riksbank steps up pace of interest rate rises

    Central bank raises rate by 50 basis points to 0.75% and signals further increases to come this year

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Central bank chiefs call end to era of low rates and moderate inflation

    ECB, Fed and BoE heads warn of painful shift after ‘massive geopolitical shock’ of Ukraine war and pandemic

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    The risk of a flip-flopping Fed

    There is a danger of the classic ‘stop-go’ trap that haunted many western central banks in the 1970s and 1980s

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    European Central Bank
    Lagarde hardens ECB’s message on fighting inflation

    Focus on tackling rising price expectations in eurozone is ‘great challenge’ for central bank, says president

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Megan Greene
    Crisis looms if the ECB’s new tool comes up short

    The spread between Italian and German government bonds has inspired the creation of an ‘anti-fragmentation’ procedure

  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    Global inflation
    Leading economies at risk of falling into high-inflation trap, BIS says

    Bank for International Settlements calls for more aggressive action from world’s central banks

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Turkish lira
    Turkish bank regulator limits lira loans for firms holding foreign exchange

    Under-pressure currency climbs in response but analysts say move is further step towards capital controls

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Markets InsightLorenzo Bini Smaghi
    How the ECB can tackle fragmentation in the eurozone

    History shows diverging sovereign bond yields have high economic and political costs

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Eurozone inflation
    Eurozone central bank chiefs warn on soaring inflation expectations

    Price pressures set to linger in France and Germany, triggering concern from the Bundesbank and Banque de France

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    FirstFT
    FirstFT: Powell warns recession ‘a possibility’

    Plus, crypto turmoil winners and PGA golf tour boss blasts Saudi-backed rival

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Norges Bank
    Norway makes surprise 50 basis point rise

    Policymakers in Oslo announce biggest rate increase in almost two decades

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Chris Giles
    Complacency led policymakers to misdiagnose inflation

    Politicians and central bankers took their eyes off price problems but running a high pressure economy is dangerous

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    InterviewCryptocurrencies
    Singapore regulator vows to be ‘unrelentingly hard’ on crypto

    Stance marks shift in rhetoric from city-state that had courted digital currency companies

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Lebanon
    Lebanese lenders claim IMF plan to seize assets breaks the law

    Proposal to seize assets labelled unlawful and unconstitutional

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Unhedged
    European debt: risk before reward Premium content

    ‘Anti-fragmentation’ is risky, expensive and worth a shot

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Federal Reserve
    Jay Powell faces test of Fed’s ‘unconditional’ resolve to tame inflation

    US central bank chair’s testimony to Congress comes in wake of heightening fears of recession

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Global Economy
    Monetary policy on the cheap? Let’s reserve judgement

    The problems of picking an off-ramp for the Bank of England’s QE carry trade.

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Markets InsightEric Lonergan
    Can the ECB prevent a second euro crisis?

    The central bank has moved quickly on bond market ‘fragmentation’ but its actions will be tested by investors

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    European Central Bank
    Lagarde defends ECB plan to counter bond market panic

    Central bank president tells MEPs she is determined to prevent ‘fragmentation’ between eurozone nations

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    UK interest rates
    Bank of England official warns of higher inflation if UK rate rises lag US

    External MPC member Catherine Mann says dovish approach would put pressure on sterling

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    LexEurope quantitative easing
    ECB/EU bonds: big bazooka needed to stop spreads blowing up Premium content

    The next step in the European monetary and political experiment has to be more radical than the last

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