The first central bank meetings of 2025 suggest it will be a year in which policymakers go their own way as economic paths ...

High inventories will weigh on eurozone GDP growth in the first quarter, though the downward impact on goods inflation is ...

As a reminder, Keynesian theory defines savings as the portion of income that is not spent on consumption (gross saving in ...

We continue to believe that the winter months will see eurozone ... crisis. The combination of high inventories and falling demand is likely to weigh on growth, as companies will first try to ...

The European Central Bank’s reduction, the fifth consecutive cut since last summer, came a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve ...

The political landscape of the Euro Area is complex, encompassing 20 EU members, it isn't a single nation. It's a monetary union, meaning a unique, multi-layered governance structure is at play. Each ...

This week, two key events on monetary policy: in the US, the Fed's decisions, in Europe, the ECB's choices. So what will Powell and Lagarde do regarding the rate cut? Expectations and repercussions wi ...

This chapter has shown that the NMPC [New Monetary Policy Consensus] is limited in four important ways. Firstly, it is based on doubtful assumptions, unwarranted generalisations, overly optimistic ...

Europe's benchmark index closed at a record high on Thursday, led by real estate stocks, as investors priced in more monetary ...

Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl plans to present a proposal to invest 5% of the bank’s €140 billion reserves ($7B) in Bitcoin. Czech President Petr Pavel supports switching to the euro, but ...

Sluggish Eurozone growth ... them anticipate future monetary policy decisions. The ECB is likely to hang on to its hopes of a consumer rebound over at least the first half of 2025.