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4/30/2025 2:47:29 PM
The eurozone economy expanded more than expected at the start of the year, official data showed on Wednesday, despite US President Donald Trump's tariffs but global trade tensions threaten more pain and near stagnation in 2025.
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1/30/2025 1:49:12 PM
Europe’s economy stagnated at the end of last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output, officials said Thursday.
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9/9/2024 4:03:45 PM
European stock markets and the dollar recovered Monday after big pre-weekend falls caused by concerns about the health of the US economy, but Asian equities declined further.
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6/10/2024 2:31:45 PM
Europe's stock markets and the euro slid Monday after far-right parties performed well in EU elections, prompting French President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary poll and plunging the bloc into political turmoil.
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6/6/2024 4:23:20 PM
The European Central Bank made its first interest rate cut since 2019 Thursday, reducing borrowing costs from record highs, but gave few clues about its next move while warning of continuing inflation pressures.
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6/5/2024 4:07:36 PM
Europe's equity markets climbed Wednesday with traders boosted on the eve of an expected interest-rate cut by the European Central Bank, but Asia slid on renewed US economic worries.
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4/30/2024 5:21:18 PM
Eurozone equities sagged Tuesday, weighed down by the strong euro as investors digested bright economic news, while London hit another record peak on earnings-driven optimism.
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9/25/2023 7:03:47 PM
The head of the European Central Bank said Monday that interest rates will stay high enough to restrict business activity for “as long as necessary” to beat back inflation because upward pressure on prices “remains strong” in the 20 countries that use the euro currency.
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8/29/2023 7:03:07 PM
Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government on Tuesday agreed a huge tax relief programme for companies in a bid to revive Germany's sputtering economy.
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6/15/2023 4:52:23 PM
The European Central Bank on Thursday said eurozone inflation was still too elevated as it hiked interest rates for an eighth consecutive time to a two-decade high, despite a darkening economic outlook.
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6/12/2023 10:56:39 AM
The European Central Bank will almost certainly deliver another interest rate hike on Thursday, pressing ahead with its fight against inflation even as the eurozone slides into a recession.
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6/8/2023 1:15:49 PM
The eurozone entered into a technical recession at the start of the year, shrinking by 0.1 percent for a second consecutive quarter, figures from the EU's statistic agency showed Thursday.
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5/31/2023 2:50:15 PM
Easing inflation in key eurozone economies such as France and Spain is "positive" news, a senior European Central Bank official said Wednesday, but stressed it was too soon to declare victory.
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4/25/2023 10:16:44 AM
The European Central Bank's chief economist on Tuesday said it was 'not the right time' to end interest rate hikes, despite easing inflation in the eurozone.
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3/31/2023 7:42:06 PM
Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro currency slowed to the lowest level in a year as energy prices dropped, but food costs were still on the rise, keeping pressure on the European Central Bank to hike interest rates further.
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3/30/2023 3:14:16 PM
Inflation slowed in Germany and Spain in March as energy prices fell, official data showed Thursday, adding to hopes that the eurozone was past the worst of the price increases.
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3/22/2023 1:38:40 PM
Recent financial turbulence could add to "downside risks" in the eurozone, European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde warned Wednesday, while insisting policymakers remained focused on taming sky-high inflation.
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3/16/2023 4:03:12 PM
The European Central Bank on Thursday increased its projection for eurozone GDP growth this year to 1.0 percent due to falling energy prices and greater "resilience to the challenging international environment".
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3/8/2023 2:27:50 PM
European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde said Wednesday she will do whatever it takes to bring down high inflation and restore price stability.
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3/2/2023 2:50:33 PM
Surging food costs dashed hopes of a steeper fall in the eurozone's annual inflation rate in February.
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