CHRISTINE LAGARDE

European Union leaders are playing down the risk of a banking crisis developing from recent global financial turmoil and hitting an already weak economy.

European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde says future interest rate decisions are open after upheaval in the global banking system has left the economic outlook more uncertain.

The European Central Bank has carried through with a large interest rate increase, brushing aside predictions it might dial back as U.S. bank collapses and troubles at Credit Suisse feed fears about the impact of higher rates on the global banking system.

Inflation in the euro zone came in at 8.5% in February.

The European Central Bank is worried that the euro zone will end up in a "sandwich position" between U.S. Big Tech and China's payment systems.

Traders and investors are right to ignore the hawkish rhetoric from European policymakers.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is giving a press conference following the bank's latest monetary policy decision.

The European Central Bank on Thursday confirmed expectations of a 50 basis point interest rate increase, taking its key rate to 2.5%.

The European Central Bank has hiked interest rates by another half-point and vows a similar hike at its next meeting.

Major central banks are expected to hike interest rates once again this week, but will be watched for signs of leading in soft economic landings.

ECB's Lagarde has said "we will stay the course to ensure the timely return of inflation" but market watchers are asking for how long.

The Harvard economist told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the world is "utterly unprepared" for another Covid-scale disruption.

Asian stock markets are higher after Wall Street losses deepened as worries grow that the U.S. economy is headed for recession.

Headline inflation came in at 9.2% year-on-year in December, according to preliminary data. It follows November's headline inflation rate of 10.1%.

Policymakers are starting to divide over whether sustaining growth is more of a priority than curbing inflation.

The European Central Bank opted for a smaller rate hike at its Thursday meeting, taking its key rate from 1.5% to 2%.

The European Central Bank has slowed its record pace of interest rate increases.

Consumer prices may have peaked, reducing the need to tighten monetary policy.

Euro zone inflation eased in November, but the European Central Bank remains under pressure to deal with the recent record rise in prices.

The ECB is set to discuss and reveal more concrete details on how it will unwind 8.8 trillion euros ($9.21 trillion) from its balance sheet

The head of the European Central Bank says she doesn't believe inflation has peaked after reaching the highest levels on record.

Try not to get hung up on labels. Monetary policy is undergoing an important shift.

Policy makers raised interest rates to curb inflation, but are trying to stop banks from taking a free ride on the increase.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is giving a press conference following the bank's latest monetary policy decision.

The European Central Bank has made another outsized interest rate hike aimed at squelching out-of-control inflation, moving at the fastest pace in the euro currency’s history.

European firms have been under pressure due to higher inflation, particularly coming from energy costs and wage pressures.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that stablecoins will need greater regulation as they become more widely used by consumers.

The head of the European Central Bank says the economic outlook “is darkening” and she expects business activity to “slow substantially” in the coming months as high energy and food prices pushed up by the war in Ukraine sap consumer spending power.

Despite clear weakness in the economy, the central bank forecasts surprising growth in the region.

The European Central Bank has made its largest-ever interest rate increase to combat record inflation that is squeezing consumers and pushing the 19 countries that use the euro currency toward recession.

An overly aggressive rate hike risks repeating the 2011 euro crisis.

Part of being a leader is deterring adversaries from doing undesirable things. That comes with huge risks.

Lagarde and her colleagues can’t do it all. The euro zone will be in serious trouble unless the EU’s leaders step up.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. economy is slowing but pointed to healthy hiring as proof that it is not yet in recession.

The European Central Bank toughened its anti-inflationary stance with a 50 basis point hike to interest rates on Thursday and announced a new anti-fragmentation tool.

Italian bond spreads remain elevated after euro-area policy makers detailed their Transmission Protection Instrument.

The ECB’s first rate increase in 11 years came after officials signaled for weeks that they intended to raise rates by just one-quarter of a percentage point.

The European Central Bank has raised interest rates for the first time in 11 years by a larger-than-expected amount.

Italy's political turmoil is making life harder for the European Central Bank as it hikes interest rates and raising bad memories of the eurozone debt crisis a decade ago.

The European Central Bank says its president, Christine Lagarde, was targeted in a hacking attempt but no information was compromised.

German intransigence could mean a summer of discontent for European debt markets.

German intransigence could mean a summer of discontent for European debt markets.

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Inflation in the countries that use the currency has been setting monthly records since last year, making life more expensive for 343 million people.

Inflation in the countries that use the currency has been setting monthly records since last year, making life more expensive for 343 million people.

Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge increase in energy costs fueled partly by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

France and Spain experienced new inflation records in June with the latter surpassing the 10% threshold for the first time since 1985.

Policy makers in the euro area need to accelerate their efforts to curb inflation.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there’s “no guarantee″ the central bank can tame runaway inflation without hurting the job market.

A member of the European Central Bank told CNBC Wednesday that there's plenty of runway to hike interest rates, following the two planned raises for July and September.

The head of the European Central Bank says it will move gradually to combat soaring consumer prices with interest rate hikes in July and September but will keep its options open to “stamp out” inflation if it surges faster than expected.

ECB Lagarde has played down fears of a recession in the euro zone.

Global stocks are mostly higher after a wobbly day on Wall Street as markets cooled off following a rare winning week.

European Union leaders are discussing their response to the severe economic turbulence looming over the coming months as the full impact of Russia’s war sinks in and the threat of recession rises.

The European Central Bank has sought to stave off the danger of a sovereign-debt storm with the promise of a new tool to curb market stress after Italian bond yields breached 4% on June 14, the highest since the market turmoil of 2014. Investors are viewing the renewed push to tackle so-called fragmentation as evidence policy makers will fight to prevent borrowing costs in the union from diverging excessively. That’s a dynamic that threatened to rip the euro-zone apart during the crisis a decade

The European Central Bank announced Wednesday it plans to create a new tool to tackle the risk of fragmentation in the euro zone.

The European Central Bank has vowed to come up with a new, unspecified market backstop that could be used to buffer some countries against bond market turmoil similar to what shook the 19-country eurozone during a debt crisis more than a decade ago.

The ECB announced an unscheduled monetary policy meeting for Wednesday, at a time when bond yields are surging for many governments across the euro zone.

With euro-area inflation surging, policy makers risk falling even further behind the curve.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is giving a press conference after the bank's latest monetary policy decision.

The European Central Bank will raise interest rates next month for the first time in 11 years, followed by another hike in September.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia, with only Shanghai rising, after stocks tumbled on Wall Street on expectations central banks will focus on battling inflation with interest rate hikes.

The European Central Bank on Thursday is expected to confirm its intention to raise interest rates next month.

Have the world’s monetary policy makers just been lucky at keeping prices stable in recent years?

Inflation came in at 8.1% for the month, hitting a record high for the seventh month in a row.

Traditionally taciturn officials are deploying a startling degree of candor about the direction of monetary policy. They would do well to consider the pitfalls.

Christine Lagarde’s hawkish pivot suggests weakness disguised as strength.

The president of the European Central Bank has given the clearest sign yet that policymakers will aim to raise interest rates as soon as July to ease surging inflation.

It is probably a done deal that the European Central Bank will increase interest rates in July, a Governing Council member told CNBC Monday.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, that aired Sunday, April 24, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

Asian shares have mostly retreated, tracking losses on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated increases in interest rates must be faster to fight inflation.

The Federal Reserve must move faster than it has in the past to rein in high inflation, Chair Jerome Powell said, signaling that sharp interest rate increases are likely in the coming months, beginning at the Fed’s next policy meeting in May.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks Thursday on a panel presented by the International Monetary Fund. CNBC's Sara Eisen will moderate the talk.

The head of the European Central Bank says the bank would raise interest rates “some time after” ending its pandemic stimulus efforts later this year.

The central bank needs some new tools to navigate the unique challenges that are likely to confront the euro-zone economy.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has tweeted that she tested positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms but will continue working at home.

The European Central Bank's president says no data currently suggests that Europe will fall into stagflation, which is a combination of high inflation, little or no economic growth and high unemployment.

European governments are slashing fuel taxes and doling out tens of billions to help consumers, truckers, farmers and others cope with spiking energy prices made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The central bank is taking the risky step of curbing stimulus even as the outlook for growth dims.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is giving a press conference after the bank's latest monetary policy decision.

The European Central Bank says it will make an earlier exit from its economic stimulus program as it combats unexpectedly high inflation.

Asian shares are mostly higher as investors try to gauge U.S. inflation, tensions between Russia and Ukraine and the impact of the pandemic.

Asian stocks are higher after Wall Street rebounded as investors waited for U.S. inflation data that might influence the pace of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.

The head of the European Central Bank says record inflation could linger for “longer than expected” and appeared to open the door at least a crack for an interest rate increase this year.

Inflation fed by high oil and gas prices hit record levels in Europe for the third month in a row.

Government and business leaders have urged global cooperation on climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic recovery at the World Economic Forum’s virtual gathering this week.

Eurogroup finance chiefs are engaged in a high-wire political balancing act prompted by conflicting economic forces: a weaker growth outlook and stronger inflation.

This New Year's the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the euro's notes and coins.

The United Kingdom’s central bank has become the first in a major advanced economy to raise interest rates since the coronavirus pandemic began.

The European Central Bank has decided not to abruptly pull back its pandemic support for the economy as the new omicron variant of COVID-19 stirs uncertainty about the continent’s recovery.

The head of the European Central Bank is doubling down on the message that it's no time to raise interest rates.

The European Central Bank has decided to keep its pandemic stimulus efforts unchanged even as consumer prices spike and central banks in other parts of the world look to dial back support as their economies bounce back from the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The head of Germany’s central bank has announced that he will step down after a decade at the helm.

The embattled head of the International Monetary Fund is pledging renewed efforts to bolster data integrity while focusing on the main job of helping countries recover from a devastating global pandemic.

The head of the International Monetary Fund says a report alleging she had a role in data-rigging at the World Bank when she was a top official there was not an accurate representation of events.

The European Union’s statistics agency says sharply higher oil and gas prices have helped push annual inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro to its highest in more than a decade.

European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde says Europe's monetary authority isn't about to “overreact” to temporary inflation by tightening policy.

Stocks ended an up-and-down day lower on Wall Street, giving the S&P 500 its fifth consecutive loss and its first weekly decline after two weeks of gains.

The European Central Bank says it is dialing back some of its massive emergency pandemic support for the economy.

Facing unease over the spread of a more-contagious variant of the coronavirus, the European Central Bank said it would maintain its stimulus in the form of ultra-low interest rates until inflation “durably” reaches its 2% target.