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ECB's Lagarde: The world ahead is more uncertain
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ECB's Lagarde: The world ahead is more uncertain
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2025.07.01 04:22
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2025.07.01 04:22
ECB President Christine Lagarde argued at the ECB Forum on Central Banking that uncertainty is expected to continue being a significant aspect of the global economy, which will likely lead to more volatile inflation and necessitate a stronger response from the ECB to maintain prices near its target.
Key Quotes
- The world ahead is more uncertain, and that is likely to make inflation more volatile.
- Regular supply disruptions are leading firms to adjust prices more frequently, contributing to greater inflation volatility.
- Large shocks can trigger feedback loops and non-linear effects.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, is the reserve bank for the Eurozone. The ECB sets interest rates and manages monetary policy for the region. The ECB primary mandate is to maintain price stability, which means keeping inflation at around 2%. Its primary tool for achieving this is by raising or lowering interest rates. Relatively high interest rates will usually result in a stronger Euro and vice versa. The ECB Governing Council makes monetary policy decisions at meetings held eight times a year. Decisions are made by heads of the Eurozone national banks and six permanent members, including the President of the ECB, Christine Lagarde.
In extreme situations, the European Central Bank can enact a policy tool called Quantitative Easing. QE is the process by which the ECB prints Euros and uses them to buy assets - usually government or corporate bonds - from banks and other financial institutions. QE usually results in a weaker Euro. QE is a last resort when simply lowering interest rates is unlikely to achieve the objective of price stability. The ECB used it during the Great Financial Crisis in 2009-11, in 2015 when inflation remained stubbornly low, as well as during the covid pandemic.
Quantitative tightening (QT) is the reverse of QE. It is undertaken after QE when an economic recovery is underway and inflation starts rising. Whilst in QE the European Central Bank (ECB) purchases government and corporate bonds from financial institutions to provide them with liquidity, in QT the ECB stops buying more bonds, and stops reinvesting the principal maturing on the bonds it already holds. It is usually positive (or bullish) for the Euro.
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