Christine 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

Speaking in a separate interview with Radio-Canada, the French-language public broadcaster, ECB president Christine Lagarde said the impact of tariffs on inflation is hard to gauge for the central bank.

Lagarde says international trade will never be the same

EUROPEAN Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned that international trade will be changed forever by the tensions over tariffs, even as the world’s leading economies edge toward some compromis...

Schwab, 87, left last month amid accusations of financial misconduct and a clash with the Forum’s directors.

World Economic Forum courts Lagarde as its next leader after founder’s abrupt exit

Lagarde has more than two years left at the ECB and has previously said she will serve her term in full

“We are now very close to target, so the disinflationary process is well underway,” Lagarde told Irish radio station Newstalk in an interview.

ECB still has a bit of work to do on prices: Lagarde

The fight against inflation isn’t yet over, even as price growth approaches the 2% goal