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Up until last Friday, both the ECB and the Fed were expected to hike by 50bps. In the case of the ECB, President Lagarde has all but confirmed that a half-point was planned. Where there were doubts was around potential tweaks to the QT program. With the collapse of three…

The Federal Reserve (Fed) expectations soften as Jerome Powell says the ‘disinflationary process is now underway’, while the European Central Bank (ECB) expectations remain hawkish although Christine Lagarde revised the eurozone’s inflation outlook to ‘balanced’ in her latest press conference. In this article, we discuss whether the latest developments in…

The ECB’s new sustainable finance & climate data indicators highlight some of the most pressing data quality and methodology issues in producing the information needed to guide climate change mitigation. …

Over the last several weeks, many ECB members have been making the case that rates need to go up. Not just that there needs to be at least a “double” hike at the coming meeting, but further hikes after that. …

The Euro was underperforming yesterday after press reports that the ECB was planning to hike by 25bps in March. That’s quite a long time away, and it’s just a rumor. But it could have an outsized impact on the shared currency for a couple of reasons. …

The consensus among economists is that the ECB will hike by another 50bps. But there is this unusual situation where the ECB has its rate decision right after the Fed (and members will be meeting at the same time as the BOE). …

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Officials from the European Central Bank believe that Bitcoin is hardly used for legal transactions and is on the road to irrelevance. Two officials from the European Central Bank (ECB) have taken a jab at Bitcoin’s purpose, and future in the financial industry in a new blog post aptly named…

This Blog Post was originally distributed by the Newsletter “Financial Idiot”. You can find and subscribe to it here. DISCLAIMER: I’m an idiot and this isn’t financial advice! You can lose money when investing, and you should never invest money you don’t own or you can’t afford to lose. …