3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (616+ words) Europe has built much of the infrastructure needed to connect its capital markets. The question now is how to make those connections work more efficiently. That was a central theme at last week’s PostTrade 360° conference in Stockholm, where Euronext joined…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (649+ words) LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Traders in the euro area were bracing for interest rate hikes well into next year on Thursday as the European Central Bank hiked borrowing costs and increased its inflation forecast, just as oil prices jumped again due…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (365+ words) PARIS, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The French economy will grow markedly less this year than the government has anticipated as declining purchasing power weighs on consumer spending and firms rein in investment, the national statistics office forecast on Thursday, cutting its outlook....

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (668+ words) LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the second time this year in a widely flagged move on Thursday, hoping to tame an inflation rise driven entirely by higher energy costs from the Iran war. The…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (217+ words) FRANKFURT, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank raised some of its growth projections on Thursday and also lifted its inflation outlook, suggesting that it expects a war-induced energy shock to dissipate only slowly. Inflation soared past 3% this summer and is…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (423+ words) By Andrea Shalal and Rodrigo Campos WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The IMF said on Thursday the global economy had weathered the energy shock caused by the war in the Middle East better than feared and global economic output was still expected…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (714+ words) By Reinhard Becker and Francesco Canepa BERLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank raised interest rates on Thursday for the second time this year to quell an energy-driven inflation rise and warned that price pressures could prove lasting, fuelling bets…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (232+ words) BERLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday rejected French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's plan to cancel a portion of France's national debt, calling it "financially dangerous" and legally impossible under EU law. Mélenchon has proposed cancelling…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (783+ words) Following are highlights of ECB President Christine Lagarde's comments at a press conference after the policy meeting. ON HIGH BOND YIELDS "It's not a euro-specific issue. It's happening across the world, and it's a factor of multiple causes. "It's incorporated…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (592+ words) LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The dollar edged higher on Thursday, recovering some of this week's losses triggered by rising oil prices and global bond yields, while the euro held near two-week highs ahead of an expected European Central Bank rate increase....