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Europe’s negative yield explosion

18 July 2019EconomicsECB, quantitative easingNick Dunbar

Amounts of negative-yielding euro debt have surged to record levels in anticipation of further easing. But how effective is the ECB’s strategy?

Italy’s populists throw down gauntlet to Draghi

25 May 2018Articles, EconomicsECB, European Central Bank, Italy, quantitative easingNick Dunbar

Italy’s new populist government is on a collision course with the ECB, which is mulling the tapering of QE purchases. But inflation divergence suggests a way out for the central bank.