From Dr. Pablo Duarte, Senior Research Analyst at the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute “As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) has lowered interest rates by 25 basis points. Despite ECB President Christine Lagarde's uncertainty ...

Bottom line: The ECB cut interest rates by 25 basis points today, speeding up from a quarterly pace, due to slowing growth, weaker employment and inflation undershooting its projections. The jury is still out on how long the ECB will stay in this ...

Comment by bond expert Peter Goves from asset manager MFS on today's ECB decision. As widely expected, the ECB cut its policy rate in a unanimous decision by 25bp to 3.25%. This remains based on a reaction function that includes the assessment ...

Last Thursday, the French government transmitted to parliament the budget bill for 2025. There were no surprises relative to what had abundantly leaked in the press the previous week. This probably explains why the 10-year spread between OATs and ...

Peter Goves, Head of Developed Market Debt Sovereign Research at asset manager MFS on the ECB meeting tomorrow: We have high conviction the ECB will cut its policy rate by 25bp from 3.50% to 3.25% next week. This is based on further deteriorati...

Kevin Thozet, member of the investment committee The European Central Bank (ECB) has been living in both hope and fear. Hope that growth would finally pick up after five consecutive quarters of GDP hovering around 0%, and fear that persistent i...