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  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    Eurozone economy
    ECB rate rises expose fears for Italy as eurozone’s weakest link

    FT poll points to Rome as EU economy most at risk from higher borrowing costs

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    Eurozone economy
    ECB retreat to put €300bn burden on eurozone debt market

    Analysts caution investors against complacency, with withdrawal of central bank purchases set to push up governments’ borrowing costs

  • Sunday, 11 December, 2022
    News in-depthCentral banks
    Eurozone central bank losses risk bailouts and more political pressure

    As rates rise, about €70bn of interest on the deposits of commercial banks will need to be paid next year

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    News in-depthEuropean Central Bank
    ECB convinces markets it is about to turn more dovish

    Subtle shift in Christine Lagarde’s messaging prompts investors to rein in bets on future rate rises

  • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
    The QE retreat
    ECB to start talks on shrinking balance sheet amid bond market turmoil

    The eurozone’s central bankers will begin discussions this week, as well as raising rate by a likely 75 basis points

  • Friday, 9 September, 2022
    European Central Bank
    ECB to start talks on shrinking its balance sheet

    Central bank policymakers agree on opening negotiations to tackle eurozone’s €5tn bond portfolio

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    ExplainerEuropean Central Bank
    Spread betting: how will the ECB’s new bond-buying tool work?

    Policymakers hope new programme will give central bank cover to raise rates without triggering market turmoil

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    European Central Bank
    ECB raises rates for first time in more than a decade

    Half percentage point increase comes as borrowing costs rise amid political turmoil in Rome

  • 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

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Lex
    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

  • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
    Eurozone economy
    Rate rise prospects raise concerns for debt-laden eurozone countries

    Spread between German and Italian bond yields has raced higher this week

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    European Central Bank
    ECB to firm up plans to ward off bond market stress

    Council members likely to commit to counter any turmoil triggered by higher rates

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Sovereign bonds
    ECB policy tightening sends eurozone borrowing costs soaring

    Borrowers including Italy face ‘double whammy’ of higher funding costs and slowing growth

  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    European Central Bank
    ECB policy tightening raises risks of ‘financial accident’

    Abrupt slowdown in stimulus programme could knock Italian and Greek bonds, investors say

  • Monday, 3 January, 2022
    European Central Bank
    Economists anticipate slow wind-down of ECB bond-buying stimulus

    Forecasters polled by FT foresee extended period of purchases in contrast to other central banks

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
    Monetary policy
    The week central banks got the chills about inflation

    In an almost simultaneous change of heart, policymakers are moving to raise rates and ditch crisis support

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    European Central Bank
    ECB to exit pandemic QE programme as inflation soars

    Central bank will boost other bond-buying scheme next year to avoid ‘brutal transition’

  • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
    The Big Read
    The return of inflation: crunch time for the European Central Bank

    The ECB has sounded more dovish than most central banks. But rising prices and Covid are putting it under growing pressure

  • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
    Greece debt crisis
    Greece to make push for ECB to keep buying its bonds

    End of pandemic emergency purchases risks leaving Greek junk bonds without European support

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    ECB executive Schnabel warns that QE is inflating asset prices

    Benefits of central bank’s bond buying programme are ‘fading’, while it may cause ‘excessive risk taking’

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    News in-depth
    Omicron adds to doubts over ECB’s commitment to further stimulus

    Debate inside central bank reflects questions over new variant’s impact on inflation

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    Monetary policy
    Lagarde and Weidmann clash over how to respond to surging inflation

    Euro knocked by ECB president’s dovish comments on need to avoid ‘premature tightening’ of monetary policy

  • Monday, 15 November, 2021
    European Central Bank
    Deutsche Bank boss calls on ECB to tighten monetary policy as inflation surges

    Christian Sewing says ultra-loose interest rate policy ‘has lost its effect’

  • Thursday, 28 October, 2021
    European Central Bank
    Lagarde pushes back on eurozone rate rise bets

    As other central banks tighten, ECB concludes surge in inflation is temporary after ‘soul-searching’

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    Deutsche Bundesbank
    End of an era as Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann steps down

    Head of Germany’s central bank was a vocal and often lonely critic of the ECB’s ultra-loose monetary policy

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