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    • 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
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      EU economy
      European Commission cuts growth forecasts after ‘challenging year’

      Latest downgrade comes amid rising expectations of stagnation in the coming quarters

      People walk on a shopping street in the southern German town of Konstanz
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      French economy
      Rise in French unemployment delivers setback for Macron

      President’s ambitions to hit 5% rate dented by rise in joblessness among younger workers and women

      Emmanuel Macron
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      German economy
      Investors raise hopes of economic rebound in Germany

      Confidence grows that downturn in largest EU economy has ‘bottomed out’, ZEW survey suggests

      People waiting by traffic lights in Berlin
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      German economy
      Court threatens to blow €60bn hole in German budget over off-balance sheet funds

      Ruling related to country’s enshrined debt brake risks spat within coalition and cash for energy transition

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      European Central Bank
      ECB will not start cutting rates in ‘next couple of quarters’, Lagarde says

      Central bank’s president tells FT rates must be kept at current levels for ‘long enough’

      Christine Lagarde
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      European Central Bank
      ECB makes case for keeping balance sheet big

      Central bank’s chief economist Philip Lane says return to pre-crisis levels would destabilise banks

      ECB headquarters in Frankfurt
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Central banks
      Central bankers adamant rates will remain high, as markets bet on cuts

      Officials say they would want to see companies cutting profit margins to be convinced inflation would fall sufficiently

      Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, left, and Central Bank of Ireland chief Gabriel Makhlouf at a conference in Dublin on Wednesday
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