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End of cycle for the ECB?

11/06/2025

2 min

Against all expectations, the ECB surprised the markets. As expected, it implemented a further rate cut—the eighth in a year—bringing the deposit rate to 2%. But it was Christine Lagarde's tone that caught the attention. The ECB president displayed unexpected ...

« Data-dependence » leads to overreaction

15/02/2022

By abandoning forward guidance in favor of a resolutely "data-dependent" approach, the FED has chosen to leave investors in the dark, with l ....

"Good news is bad news"

09/02/2022

After the Fed, the BoE and the ECB, the two main European central banks, which held their monetary policy meeting last week, have also made ....

Changes in the market perception

25/01/2022

The time of optimism, which prevailed on the financial markets, seems already far away. Indeed, if last year investors got along rather well ....

The "Quantitative Tightening" fear

18/01/2022

Between the tightening of the Fed's balance sheet (Quantitative Tightening) and the term "anxiety", derived from the Latin angustia (narrow ....

When the seagulls have their feet, it's time to turn!

17/01/2022

While Jerome Powell had long hesitated, during the year 2021, to take the step of monetary tightening, arguing of transitory inflation and a ....

The glass is definitely half full

17/01/2022

Regardless of the variant, be it Delta or Omicron, inflation and monetary tightening ahead, financial markets have been (and remain) staunch ....

Everything is under control ...

15/12/2021

The end of this year clap is fast approaching and topical issues have not, for the moment, really changed, namely Covid and inflation (as we ....