Sentences with phrase «eurozone economy»

-LRB-...) The strength of demand for eurozone «periphery» debt reflected increased investor appetite for higher - yielding government bonds as well as rising confidence in the creditworthiness of eurozone economies.

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the expanding eurozone economy still faces «risks and uncertainties» — including a looming trade dispute with the United States — and has cautioned that inflation needs to rise further before monetary...

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the expanding eurozone economy still faces «risks and uncertainties» — including a looming trade dispute with the United States — and has cautioned that inflation needs to rise further before monetary stimulus is ended.

It is the third largest Eurozone economy, behind only Germany and the UK.

Earlier this year it appeared that economic and financial policy officials were finally coming together with an effective approach to addressing the critical debt crisis in the smaller «peripheral» economies of the Eurozone — Greece, Ireland, Portugal — and ring - fencing the other Eurozone economies, particularly Spain, Italy, and Belgium, from the risks of contagion.

He is advising European leaders to: reassess the current plan in Greece - which will reportedly see its debt at 120 per cent of its GDP by 2020 -; recapitalise banks in struggling eurozone economies; and allow the European Central Bank to buy bonds from distressed countries.

Yes, there were other problems, bureaucrats in Brussels, seeking human perfection though regulation, helped to strangulate a previously more competitive Eurozone economy.

Despite the backlash, the SNB will face from those who are nursing potential losses that could run into billions, many analysts thought the decision was inevitable in light of next week's expected announcement by the ECB to break new ground in its efforts to inject life into the ailing 19 - country eurozone economy.

Goldberg says bold moves by the European Central Bank have mitigated the threat of a cascade of major bank failures, but an anemic Eurozone economy would be bad news for American export - driven companies.

The long - awaited program, known as quantitative easing, is meant to spur growth in the listless eurozone economy and to raise inflation to healthier levels.

The entire Eurozone economy has been struggling to regain its footing following the global financial crisis of 2008.

Earlier this week, it was reported that the 19 - member eurozone economy expanded by 2.5 % in 2017, the fastest rate since 2007, and ahead of the 2.3 % expansion the U.S. saw last year.

The European Central Bank announced a massive stimulus program to get the struggling eurozone economy growing again.

Eurozone economy enjoys its best year in a decade.

There are also worrisome developments in Spain, the fourth - largest Eurozone economy.

It is the neoliberal stance now demanding austerity for Greece, Ireland, Italy and other Eurozone economies.

The first is the notion that wealth transfers to less competitive Eurozone economies are bound to exceed the economic benefits of the EMU over time.

«I've heard stories of companies hedging their bets with some of the eurozone economies,» Langrish says, explaining that some have set up accounts to pay their employees in euros should their home country exit the eurozone and reintroduce its old currency.

As the Federal Reserve drops increasingly heavy hints about raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi all but pre-announced a new round of stimulus for a Eurozone economy that is still flirting with deflation.

The most widespread opinion is that the European Central Bank is going to announce a new round of bond - buying next week to try to stimulate the Eurozone economy, which will further depress the value of the euro and make the franc yet more attractive.

«Our decision to upgrade Europe at the end of last year was driven by our belief that we would see a solid upturn in the eurozone economy, earnings and investment flows into a region that was unloved and underowned,» says Sheets.

The eurozone economy appears to be in good shape, the best since the global financial crisis a decade ago, and we think this progress should be maintained.

The step represented a significant escalation of the E.C.B.'s efforts to get banks to lend more money, apply a jolt to the eurozone economy and head off the threat of a destructive decline in prices known as deflation.

Another question is whether quantitative easing can help fix the eurozone economy, especially since it has taken so long for the central bank to begin a large - scale bond - buying program.

Faced with a eurozone economy stubbornly resistant to revival, the bank said this year that it would effectively pay commercial banks money to borrow central bank money.

FRANKFURT — Faced with a eurozone economy stubbornly resistant to revival, the European Central Bank on Thursday went where no central bank — at least no major one — had gone before.

The uncertain state of the eurozone economy may become clearer on Wednesday when the European Union statistics office releases an estimate of its economic growth in the first quarter.

However, during the past 12 months, all Eurozone economies have started to show signs of definite improvement.

Eurozone indicators have softened in recent weeks, raising concerns that ECB President Mario Draghi could sound dovish about the eurozone economy.

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the eurozone economy still needs abundant stimulus to raise inflation to more normal levels even in the midst of a strengthening recovery.

The eurozone economy may be enjoying its best growth in a decade and seeing unemployment drop sharply, but there are few signs that is fueling the inflation that the European Central Bank is looking for.

Draghi has long insisted the bank would continue to take what it feels is appropriate action to get the eurozone economy on track, and he reinforced that message most recently in August at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - sponsored economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

European stocks remain attractively priced and the eurozone economy is improving, as demonstrated by data accessible via Bloomberg.

Investors are now watching for any hints from ECB chief Mario Draghi on the outlook for the eurozone economy and future rate policy.

The European Central Bank is currently tapering its asset purchase program, and we anticipate an end to the program as the eurozone economy improves.

Two final factors include how soon the eurozone economy bottoms out (there have been some recent signs of stabilization, but the monetary union's chronic problems remain unresolved), and whether Middle East tensions and the threat of nuclear proliferation in the region — and responses to that threat by the US and Israel — escalate or are successfully contained.

Nevertheless, we think the ECB is likely to wait for far more compelling evidence that the eurozone economy is generating appropriate and sustainable levels of price increases before contemplating a change of stance.

Nevertheless, with the ECB's own inflation forecast for 2019 still only at 1.7 %, our sense is that ECB President Draghi is likely to wait for far more compelling evidence that the eurozone economy is generating appropriate and sustainable levels of price increases before contemplating a change of stance.

But the eurozone economy is still weak overall and recovering only slowly from years of financial crises and recessions.

At the end of 2014, the eurozone economy looked rather bleak: growth was languishing and inflation had slipped below zero.

Nor is there much prospect of relief for the eurozone economy from fiscal stimulus.

Although markets generally seem to have been underwhelmed by the latest monetary policy announcements from the European Central Bank (ECB), I believe the measures unveiled by its president, Mario Draghi, are exactly what the eurozone economy needs, and are exactly what the market should have expected.

Eurozone Data Strong but ECB Keeps Monetary Policy Unchanged We believe an adjustment in the European Central Bank's (ECB's) monetary - policy settings looks likely to be made soon, as it would be surprising if the central bank continued on its current highly accommodative course for much longer, considering the stronger - than - expected recovery in the eurozone economy.

We would agree an adjustment in the ECB's monetary - policy settings looks likely to be made soon, as it would be surprising if the central bank continued on its current highly accommodative course for much longer, considering the stronger - than - expected recovery in the eurozone economy.

I think improvement in the eurozone economy in the 11 months since the current QE program was announced is one of the reasons why Draghi and his ECB governing council colleagues were reluctant to do more.

The European Central Bank cut its benchmark rate to a record low of 0.25 % on November 7 to keep the eurozone economy from slipping back into recession.