European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde spoke in an interview with Greek newspaper Kathimerini. The ECB posted the interview on its site, here: Speaking to the Greek newspaper, President Christine Lagarde reflects on the Greek economy’s strong recovery in recent years, and reiterates the ECB’s determination to return euro area inflation to 2% Highlights: “We
Weaker than expected consumer confidence and JOLTS numbers helped diminish Fed rate hike risks which in turn underpinned strong gains in Treasuries, Wall Street & the Asian stock market today as the markets clawed back some of the hefty losses in August also on speculation that the Fed is nearing the end of the tightening
Via a Commerzbank note previewing the European Central Bank meeting decision due on Thursday. Analysts at the bank say that following the the ECB signalling a continuation of rate hikes for today’s meeting at its previous meeting, “the ECB is likely to find it difficult to move to a less explicit forward guidance without the