Christine Lagarde

World order changing, not rupturing, finance chiefs say

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had called on nations to accept that a rules-based global order is over

Klaas Knot, whose stint as head of the Netherlands’ central bank ended last year, leads in the ranking as the next ECB chief.

Knot most likely heir to Lagarde at ECB

Knot was one of the ECB’s most influential officials during his 14 years on the governing council

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said tensions between Europe and the US will hasten European integration.

Trump could kick start European integration, Lagarde predicts

[FRANKFURT] Trust between Europe and the US is being undermined by political tensions but this will accelerate long-stalled European integration, Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Centr...

“With a track record of around 2 per cent inflation and a medium-term projection at 2 per cent, I would say again, that we are in a good place,” Lagarde.

ECB to probably lift growth forecast next week, Lagarde says

Policymakers are increasingly convinced that borrowing costs can be left unchanged for the foreseeable future

Isabel Schnabel is one of the two women on the ECB's governing council, with Christine Lagarde.

ECB’s Schnabel says she’d be ‘ready’ to succeed Lagarde if asked

While the German’s term is non-renewable, ECB lawyers believe it is an obstacle surmountable via a loophole found in 2018

“We are in a good place today, but that place is not fixed,” Lagarde told a monetary-policy conference in Helsinki.

Lagarde says inflation risks ‘quite contained’ in each direction

Her comments show the ECB is in no rush to lower borrowing costs further

“The Governing Council is determined to ensure that inflation stabilises at its 2 per cent target in the medium term,” the ECB said in a statement. “The Governing Council is not pre-committing to a particular rate path.”

ECB holds rates unchanged, offers no clues about next move

The ECB halved its key rate to 2% in the year to June but has been on hold ever since

If US monetary policy were no longer independent ...  this would affect the world, warns Christine Lagarde.

ECB's Lagarde warns of risk to world economy via Trump interference on Fed

[BRUSSELS] Steps by US President Donald Trump to remove Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell or Fed governor Lisa Cook would represent a “very serious danger for the US economy and the world economy...

“Growth is relatively modest, but resilient and on its way up with the fundamentals such as consumption and investment looking good at the moment,” says Lagarde.

Eurozone economy proving resilient, says ECB’s Lagarde

“There will be more shocks, we know that, but we are in a good position,” she says from Jackson Hole

ECB's Christine Lagarde says: “I think we are getting to the end of a monetary policy cycle. After that 25-basis-point rate cut and with the right path as it is, we are in a good place.”

ECB cuts rates as bets build on a summer pause

The central bank has now lowered borrowing costs eight times, or by 2 percentage points since last June