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Christine Lagarde

June 2024

  • The ECB president, Christine Lagarde, speaks during a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany, in April.

    European Central Bank cuts main interest rate by 0.25 points

    ECB reduces rate to 3.75% across eurozone, putting it ahead of US Federal Reserve and Bank of England

May 2024

  • Christine Lagarde

    G7 leaders to discuss €30bn loan for Ukraine using Russian assets

    Finance ministers will debate legality of using €270bn in frozen state assets as collateral for loan

January 2024

  • Chancellor Jeremy Hunt before presenting the spring budget on 15 March 2023.

    The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s tax plans: stop trying to buy votes

  • European Central Bank president, Christine Lagarde

    Hope fades for cut in interest rates for industrialised nations

September 2023

  • German political posters in front of the European Central Bank.

    Sluggish eurozone economies will not welcome ECB’s interest rate rise

  • Christine Lagarde

    ECB raises interest rates to highest level since euro launched

August 2023

  • A photo of the Bank of England's headquarters in London.

    Business live
    Bank of England must ‘see job through’ on cost of living; eurozone inflation higher than expected – as it happened

    Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as easing of chip shortage boosts British car manufacturing by a third

July 2023

  • Andrew Bailey<br>FILE - Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, addresses the media on the Monetary Policy Report at the Bank of England in London, May 5, 2022. Leading global central bankers asserted Wednesday, June 28, 2023, that they are not backing off their steep interest rate increases, pointing to inflation being more persistent than expected but still downplaying fears of recession from their hikes. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)

    If there’s such a thing as an inflation quota, has Britain already exceeded it?

    Phillip Inman
    According to some in the City, the UK will have to keep prices flat for the next seven years to make up for the last three. Really?

June 2023

  • The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, (centre) arrives in Sintra, Portugal.

    Corporate profits drove up prices last year, says ECB president

    Christine Lagarde says without a shift in corporate behaviour, interest rates will need to stay higher for longer

May 2023

  • The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, in front of an EU flag

    European Central Bank chief suggests firms are engaging in ‘greedflation’

  • 'Inflation outlook too high, for too long': ECB raises interest rates – video

January 2023

  • Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference in Washington DC

    Project Syndicate economists
    The climate crisis threatens economic stability – why are central bankers divided?

    Howard Davies
    Jerome Powell and Mervyn King reject taking on climate policy, while Mark Carney and Christine Lagarde say action is vital

September 2022

  • Sunflowers bloom in front of the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany

    Eurozone interest rates must continue to rise, says European Central Bank

    Decision about how to fight inflation follows increase by unprecedented 0.75 percentage points

July 2022

  • The ECB president, Christine Lagarde

    Interest rates: the three central banks facing one tricky balancing act

    In the fight against inflation the ECB, Bank of England and Federal Reserve risk either doing too much too soon, or too little too late

June 2022

  • Andrew Bailey

    UK will face worse inflation than other major economies, says Bank governor

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Why is the ECB still fiddling over a potential eurozone crisis?

    Nils Pratley

December 2021

  • European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde

    Inflation in eurozone soars to 4.9% – highest since euro was introduced

    Some investors accuse European Central Bank to allow inflation to run out of control

October 2021

  • Larry Elliott

    Yes it’s expensive, but failing to meet climate challenge will cost a lot more

    Larry Elliott
    Cop26 breakthrough will require rich nations to finally make good on promise to help poorer ones

July 2021

  • Christine Lagarde

    European Central Bank shifts inflation target upwards to 2%

    ECB denies ‘moving the goalposts as prices begin to rise’ and says new strategy will be easier to communicate

July 2020

  • Christine Lagarde

    Female leaders have been better at tackling Covid-19, says ECB chief

    Christine Lagarde praises Angela Merkel and leaders of New Zealand, Taiwan and Belgium
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