The threat of sanctions on Russian hydrocarbon exports and uncertainty surrounding supplies will ex…

The European Central Bank announced it would lower its benchmark interest rate from 4% to 3.75%, ma…

However, the deal could result in the elimination of up to 20,000 jobs - more than 13% of the two c…

Wednesday's comments came just weeks after Trump attacked Draghi, accusing Europe of unfairly using…

"The debate is whether central banks should continue to lose credibility and focus on an unachievab…

"Needless to say, this is not a good environment for central banks to be playing catch-up," El-Eria…

"Hundreds of billions of pounds worth of operations delivered from peoples' bedrooms, attics and ki…

More protection is needed given the rise of "international security risks" such as potential bomb t…

Because "commercial banks hold their deposits within central banks, if rates are positive they gain…

This report also said the ECB needs to act to head off deflation, and while ECB president Mario Dra…

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The second consecutive increase by the central bank is the biggest since it was founded in 1998, wi…

A severe recession is "inevitable" for Europe as the energy crisis worsens and the ECB continues to…

If the figure is seen as low, financial markets may take that as a sign that the ECB will do more e…

"Fundamentally, we think the Fed is extremely unlikely to move in this direction, as official comme…

What else can central banks do then? Once short-term rates are at the lower bound, they can purchas…

First, the slowdown in population growth and the ageing of the population in the coming years shoul…

However, there also remains the question of the bank starting the process of tapering its QE - esse…

The ECB was modelled on the German Bundesbank. As a result, it is one of the world's most political…