Under QT, the ECB shed €3.1 trillion in bonds and loans. Separately, it wrote up its gold assets by €409 billion, or by 68%, to reflect soaring gold prices. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The ECB values […]
Ursula von der Leyen is facing an unfortunate and unnecessary challenge to her plans to increase investment as part of her second term as European Commission President, as the European Central Banks keeps neglecting its […]
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The ECB has shed €2.0 trillion of its assets since QT began, as of the latest weekly balance sheet. Its total assets are now down to €6.83 trillion, the lowest since November […]
Quantitative tightening powers along in the euro area. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Under the ECB’s QT program, kicked off in October 2022, total assets have plunged by €1.94 trillion, or by 21.9%, to €6.90 trillion, the […]
Biggest home-price drops in the data going back to 2000 triggered by the biggest QT and highest rates in ECB history. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Germany is a great example of what ultra-low interest rates and […]
In yet another setback for the smooth-landing crowd, core Euro-area inflation re-accelerated in June (while the headline declined), putting further pressure on The ECB to hike and keep hiking. While the headline CPI fell notably […]
Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Real rates in Europe and the UK will be positive by the summer, giving the ECB and the BOE cover to cease their hiking cycles, with each bank […]
FRANKFURT, April 3 (Reuters) – An oil production target cut announced by some of the world’s top exporters is bad news for the European Central Bank as it tries to bring down inflation but will […]
US stocks spiked, with spoos rising above both the closely watched 200DMA and the descending channel resistance level, after Bloomberg reported that echoing the Fed, the ECB is also “starting to consider a slower pace […]
By Ven Ram, Bloomberg markets live reporter and analyst Here are the broad contours of what the markets expect from the European Central Bank’s policy review: Decision: For quite some time now, interest-rate traders have […]
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