this move is actually rather positive i'd be more worried if these would be didn't step in european central bank has taken over the role of super supervision of european banks and it's now doing exactly that stepping in after a management majority of the board stepped out this morning now the european central bank make sure the bank continues to stay operational and find the path to a solution whether it be selling the bank or liquidating it what about the best is that they worried about the situation. well this is the first time the e.c.b. does this so it's kind of an extraordinary move really and. it has investors a little concerned about shares of the bank of fallen about ninety percent in the past three months which is why the main shareholder volokh initiative to raise capital to rescue the bank now there may be room for for more negotiation and for more and for improvement of people say what you. will get back to you in a budget because there's another story of what to do about budget telecoms father lawsuit against germany's network regulatory agency the telco is protesting against the pr

president mario draghi made the announcement made december the european central bank want to buy bonds on the financial markets start in january. regarding known standard monetary policy measures are net purchases under the us it purchase program will end in december two thousand and eighteen the e.c.b. has been buying government bonds as part of its quantitative easing program which was later expanded to include corporate bonds to make financing cheaper for companies the e.c.b. has spent a staggering two thousand six hundred fifty billion euros on bonds which it will be holding onto for now. it's it be food decide who would those among the moment that is on the scene be has been fulfilling the mandate that it has for the whole eurozone well financed. it is now pulling back from financial relief for southern europe to fulfill its monday it will both northern and southern european countries not. has proceeded with caution allowing the markets time to adapt to more expensive financing for now the main question is whether the e.c.b. will raise the interest rate next year. a major challeng

the euro was launched on january first one thousand nine hundred nine with a huge parsi the european central bank that the exchange rates with a national currency but europeans could only pay with the euro using checks credit or debit cards coins and notes were released into circulation three years later. initially financial markets were skeptical. the euro fell to a record low of a c. five cents to the dollar on october twenty sixth two thousand. things improved two years later when the currency was launched as cash in paper and coins that confidence the euro climbed reaching a record high of nearly one dollar sixty but the two thousand and eight financial crisis shook the global banking system. the euro also took his within a couple of months it lost a fifth of its value. times remain turbulent for the common currency the twenty ten greek debt exacerbated the situation and in danger of the euro the european central bank jumped in to support this and the currency lost significant value in twenty fifteen amid another debt crisis in greece and the conflict in ukraine but it started rising steadily

president mario draghi made the announcement with december the european central bank won't buy bonds on the financial markets start in january. regarding known standard monetary policy measures are net purchases under the us that purchase program will end in december two thousand and eighteen the e.c.b. has been buying government bonds as part of its quantitative easing program which was later expanded to include corporate bonds to make financing cheaper for companies the e.c.b. has spent a staggering two thousand six hundred fifty billion euros on bonds which it will be holding onto for now. it's it be food decide who would those among the moment the e.c.b. has been fulfilling the mandate that it has for the whole eurozone well financed. it is now pulling back from financial relief for southern europe to fulfill its monday to both northern and southern european countries not. has proceeded with caution allowing the markets time to adapt to more expensive financing for now the main question is whether the e.c.b. will raise the interest rate next year. a major challenge facing germany

and mario draghi the departing and incoming directors of the european central bank sent a secret letter to berlusconi the letter was made public by the courier newspaper and reminds berlusconi of certain key measures the e.c.b. was expecting from its city. these were structural reforms in favor of complete liberalization of local public services through large scale privatization. this secret letterhead major consequences as the european central bank has no power to enforce specific policy on any member states. it was a judgment the judgment of the. what was necessary in this absolutely dramatic circumstances where forty percent of the g.d.p. of the. was under attack. one of. the berlusconi government did in fact implements many of the measures proposed in the letter it also tried covertly to reintroduce provisions for the privatization of water which the italian people had voted down in the referendum the course official court intervenes and said no you cannot rein should use. legal provisions to of been repealed as a result of a referral. this prompted european commissioner olli rehn t

well buying just as the european central bank winds down its assets purchasing program we're seeing some discouraging figures especially from december i'm not going to make a personal prediction but i can tell you what economists are saying and some of them are saying that one of the worst things we have to fear is fear itself if we worry too much too much about unjustified things then we might just worry ourselves into a dip into recession because we're spending too little so looking at these data that we've seen what we have here is headline inflation that includes energy prices and it's a very volatile it goes up and down while core inflation is stable the manufacturing numbers that we've seen include in december the protests in france also negative of course we have negative things happening like the trade dispute but we also got to be careful not to let that way down to heavily if you say you've got the numbers down what you're saying is this is all psychological what about the trade school next week what's the likelihood of result there because i'm sure a lot of that is also very p

and mario draghi the departing and incoming directors of the european central bank sent a secret letter to berlusconi the letter was made public by the courier newspaper and reminds berlusconi of certain key measures the e.c.b. was expecting from its city. these were structural reforms in favor of complete liberalization of local public services through large scale privatization. this secret letterhead major consequences as the european central bank has no power to enforce specific policies on any member states. it was a judgment the judgment of the. absolutely dramatic circumstances where forty percent of the g.d.p. of the. attack. one of. the berlusconi government did in fact implements many of the measures proposed in the letter it also tried covertly to reintroduce provisions for the privatization of water which the italian people had voted down in the referendum the course official court intervenes. no you cannot rein should use. legal provisions to of been repealed as a result of her for us. this prompted european commissioner olli rand to write another letter to berlusconi seekin

president mario draghi made the announcement mid december the european central bank want to buy bonds on the financial markets start in january. regarding known standard monetary policy measures are net purchases under the us it purchase program will end in december two thousand and eighteen the e.c.b. has been buying government bonds as part of its quantitative easing program which was later expanded to include corporate bonds to make financing cheaper for companies the e.c.b. has spent a staggering two thousand six hundred fifty billion euros on bonds which it will be holding onto for now. it's it being a food decide who would those months at the moment the e.c.b. has been fulfilling the mandate that it has for the whole eurozone well financed. it is now pulling back from financial relief for southern europe to fulfill its monday at both northern and southern european countries not the e.c.b. has proceeded with caution allowing the markets time to adapt to more expensive financing for now the main question is whether the e.c.b. will raise the interest rate next year. a major challen

this week, the head of the european central bank, mario draghi, warned the european parliament that theer than expected. he pointed to global factors, notably the us—china trade war and, of course, brexit. an early estimate showed inflation slowing to 1.6% in december, well below the ecb's target of 2%. the european central bank is forecasting growth of 1.7% this year, but that could prove to be optimistic. europe's biggest economy germany saw growth slow to 1.5% in 2018, the weakest in five years. in fact, it narrowly avoided falling into recession in the second half. the ecb is running out of options. its main interest rate is already at zero and it has already pumped $2.9 trillion into the economy over the last four years. now, there are big concerns over the impact of brexit. on wednesday, joachim lang of the german industry association bdi warned a hard brexit would be economically very damaging to germany and the wider eu, as well as to the uk. translation: all areas are affected from the car industry to chemicals, pharmaceuticals, engineering, electronics, they are all affected.

one thousand nine hundred nine saw the birth of the euro and the european central bank had been created to ensure its stability. at the time global growth was strong the level of public debt was starting to decline europe was breathing easy. confident financial markets lent generously to governments and the weakest economies spain greece italy portugal suddenly had access to loans a very low interest rates close to those available to germany. that low cost financial windfall was an economic boost all was well fall out. meanwhile in the united states america's housing bubble was expanding and in two thousand and seven the subprime crisis struck thousands of homeowners lost their homes they had taken out loans with interest rates that rose sharply and they found themselves unable to make their mortgage payments many banks were in danger. on september fifteenth two thousand and eight lehman brothers one of the largest u.s. investment banks collapsed elected in one was. a phenomena speculative surfin must begin to misunderstand the. present so that your couscous a posse of honestly didn't m

the european central bank is winning them off stimulus. winding down the most controversial measure, the massive bond buying scheme. it helps to stabilize markets but critics called it market manipulation. mario draghi made the announcement, the european central bank won't buy bonds on the financial markets starting in january. >> regarding nonstandard potency -- policy measures, the next purchase will end in december of 2018. the ecb has been buying government bonds as part of its quantitative easing program. that was later expanded to make financncing cheaper r for compa. the e ecb has spent a staggering 2006 euros on bonds. -- 2000 6 million euros on bonds. >> they have been for filling the mandate that it has. it is now pulling back from financial relief to fulfill its mandatate for both northern and southern european countries. the ecb has proceeded with caution, allowing the markets time to adapt to more financial -- extensive financing. the question is whether they will raise the rate next year. >> the japanese have been flocking to

one thousand nine hundred nine saw the birth of the euro and the european central bank had been created to ensure its stability. at the time global growth was strong the level of public debt was starting to decline europe was breathing easy. confident financial markets lent generously to governments and the weakest economies spain greece italy portugal suddenly had access to loans a very low interest rates close to those available to germany. that low cost financial windfall was an economic boost all was well well out. meanwhile in the united states america's housing bubble was expanding and in two thousand and seven the subprime crisis struck thousands of homeowners lost their homes they had taken out loans with interest rates that rose sharply and they found themselves unable to make their mortgage payments many banks were in danger on september fifteenth two thousand and eight. one of the largest u.s. investment banks collapsed because they live on. a phenomenal speculative surfin most because the. present so that your couscous a posse of honestly didn't want was there so give you th

one thousand nine hundred nine saw the birth of the euro and the european central bank had been created to ensure its stability. at the time global growth was strong the level of public debt was starting to decline europe was breathing easy. confident financial markets lent generously to governments and the weakest economies spain greece italy portugal suddenly had access to loans a very low interest rates close to those available to germany. that low cost financial windfall was an economic boost all was well thought out. meanwhile in the united states america's housing bubble was expanding and in two thousand and seven the subprime crisis struck thousands of homeowners lost their homes they had taken out loans with interest rates that rose sharply and they found themselves unable to make their mortgage payments many banks were in danger. on september fifteenth two thousand and eight lehman brothers one of the largest u.s. investment banks collapsed elected him on was. a phenomenal speculative surfin must begin to misunderstand the. present so that your couscous a posse of honest to do

the european central bank set the exchange rates with the national currencies. t europeans could only pay with the euro using checks, credit, or debit cards. coins and notes were issued into circulation three years later. initially, financial markets were skeptical. the euro fell to a record low of $0.85 to the dollar on october 26, 2000. things improved two years later when the currency was launched as cash, in n paper and coins. that brought confidence. the euro climbed, reaching a record high of nearly $1.60. but the 2008 financial crisis shook the global banking system. the euro also took a hit. within a couple months it lost one-fifth of its value. times remained turbulent for the common currency. the 2010 greek debt exacerbated the situation and endangered the euro. the european central-bank jumped in to support it. and the currency lost significant value 2015 amid another bt crisis in greece and the nflict in ukraine. but it started rising steadily afterwards. the euro is now the world's second-most important currency. more than 340 million people use it i

with a new step to shore up italy's banking system well one bank at the time soon made the european central bank has appointed three temporary administrators to take charge of italy's carriages bank now this is a bitch to say for the struggling lender after it failed to raise capital her late last year these are bees move on khadijah follows today's decision by italian market watchdog console to hold trading in can each a share as stock in the bank plunged last week after its board failed to agree on a capital increase the bank has tried and failed to raise about four hundred million euros i'm on that story i'm joined by paul christiane but it's our man of the frankfurt stock exchange how i mean the e.c.b. taking control of an italian bank do we need to be worried. yeah i hear you monica we should actually be more worried if the e.c.b. hadn't taken control because early this morning the majority of. the just board actually resigned and so the e.c.v. taking over control of that is a good sign even though it does send a little bit of a shock wave across markets but that does mean it is and early i

president mario draghi made the announcement with december the european central bank won't buy bonds on the financial markets start in january. regarding known standard monetary policy measures. net purchases under the us it purchase program will end in december two thousand and eighteen the e.c.b. has been buying government bonds as part of its quantitative easing program which was later expanded to include corporate bonds to make financing cheaper for companies the e.c.b. has spent a staggering two thousand six hundred fifty billion euros on bonds which it will be holding onto for now. the its it be food side who would those at the moment the c.b.c. has been fulfilling the mandate that it has for the whole eurozone well financed. it is now pulling back from financial relief for southern europe to fulfill its monday at both northern and southern european countries not likely c.b. has proceeded with caution allowing the markets time to adapt to more expensive financing for now the main question is whether the e.c.b. will raise the interest rate next year. a major challenge facing ger

was launched on january first one thousand nine hundred ninety nine with a huge parsi the european central bank that the exchange rates with the national currencies but europeans could only pay with the euro using checks credit or debit cards coins and notes were released into circulation three years later. initially financial markets were skeptical. the euro fell to a record low of a c. five cents to the dollar on october twenty sixth two thousand. things improved two years later when the currency was launched as cash in paper and coins that board confidence in the euro climbed reaching a record high of nearly one dollar sixty. but the two thousand and eight financial crisis shook the global banking system. the euro also took a hit within a couple of months it lost a fifth of its value. times remain turbulent for the common currency the twenty ten greek debt exacerbated the situation and endangered the euro the european central bank jumped into supporters on the currency lost significant value in twenty fifteen amid another debt crisis in greece and the conflict in ukraine but it started risin

this move is actually rather positive i'd be more worried if these would be didn't step in european central bank has taken over the role of super supervision of european banks and it's now doing exactly that stepping in after a management majority of the board stepped out this morning now the european central bank make sure the bank continues to stay operational and find the path to a solution whether it be selling the bank or liquidating it what about the best is that they worried about the situation. well this is the first time the e.c.b. does this it's kind of an extraordinary move really and. it has investors a little concerned but shares of the bank are falling about ninety percent in the past three months which is why the main shareholder volokh an initiative to raise capital or to rescue the bank now there may be room for for more negotiation and for more and for improvement. but it's the digital age or knowledge germans still love they cash it getting bank notes from an a.t.m. could soon proved difficult thousands of drivers and other workers you transport cash to banks and retail stalls

european commission but it has not really made its troubles go away. that's right, we have had news that a bank there has had administrators appointed by the european central needs to secure its final chill position. it must be said that carige is not a particularly large bank but it is a reminder of the fa ct bank but it is a reminder of the fact that italy does have banks that have been struggling with bad loans loa ns have been struggling with bad loans loans not being properly repaid and they also have quite a lot of italian government debt that they own. that is looking ok at the moment because of the agreement they made with the european commission about the budget but there is certainly the potential for that kind of doom loop between struggling banks and struggling government finances to re—emerge. it was something that was driving the euro zone financial crisis five or six yea rs zone financial crisis five or six years ago. we have been asking all our favourite people for their predictions for 2019. is it going to bea predictions for 2019. is it going to be a crazy year again? it will be, and in terms of my best guess in terms of the overall econo

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market research group says sixty two percent of german businesses want the european central bank to raise interest rates in the navy. some analysts say a hike may not even come this year rates is still at a record low in the euro zone and companies already given next financial crisis be around the corner breaks it up lack of solidarity and some countries financial policies as the biggest threats to the right now. then there is the trade war between the world's top two mates as terrify c'sap'n bowling cost sales of putting a damper on this year's detroit motor show it's one of the oldest of its kind some of the big players a giving it a miss this time i should say the reports. shine the hubcaps rev the engines and break out the blonde models the detroit auto show is back. it's still the biggest and for mere auto show in north america but this huge market automakers flock to the motor city every year and put on slickly produced reveals and performances but among the usual heavyweights like toyota and ford with are the germans. audi b.m.w. di miller and porsche are all big names that you won

now back to europe where the european central bank in frankfurt said it was not raising interest rates at its meeting thursday and it gave no indication about when they might be raised investors largely interpreted the statement as a signal that the key lending rate who remain at historic rose lows for the rest of the year the e.c.b. is widely believed to be in favor of raising interest rates but is reluctant to do so with the economy now weakening in many parts of europe. renault has appointed michelin boss. as its new chairman the move follows the resignation of legendary boss carlos ghosn whose arrest on financial misconduct charges has rocked the french carmaker and its alliance with japan's nissan. is a nod will become chairman immediately the company said deputy chief executive tyria below will take over goans other role as c.e.o. as the nod sixty five now faces the task of soothing relations with renault's japanese partner and resuming talks on a new alliance structure to cement the twenty year old partnership. now for another carmaker volkswagen became the world's top auto make

the third and fourth quarter of twenty eighteen raising concerns the slowdown comes as the european central bank gradually starts halting its crisis students measures. u.s. consumer products giant procter and gamble is in hot water over their latest ad in a social media campaign razor company gillette which is a subsidiary of procter and gamble seems to abandon its traditional celebration of macho role models this time around it calls for men to shift their behavior and reject patriarchal ideas and concepts the commercial says today's men should question their own male this in the wake of the me too movement chauvinists and macho simply no longer have a place in society to spot implies you. know so far so good but there has been some backlash from the target audience jared from our social media desk is here to tell me all about it what's the issue well i guess gillette is deliberately being provocative and it's attracted a lot of attention good attention people are saying they're supportive of the message that men need to call out other men for bad behavior because sexual violence is a problem b

last quarter of twenty eighteen raising concerns among investors the slowdown comes as the european central bank gradually starts halting its crisis stimulus measures now in the united states alone companies invest around thirty two billion dollars each year in social marketing the aim is to reach precise target groups the emphasis is on relevance tuned in to social issues and trend aware so it looks like razor company gillette's done everything right in its latest commercial that seems that bad and its addition of celebration of macho role models this time around it calls for men to shift their behavior and reject patriarchal ideas and concepts concepts the commercial says today's men should question their own mail lists in the wake of the need to mention of an instant macho simply no longer have a place in society that's the implication of the spot. so far so good but there has been some backlash from gillette's main target audience jared reader from our social media team is here to tell us all about it. so do tell us all about it what's the. procter and gamble who deliberately trying to be pr

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and mario draghi the departing and incoming directors of the european central bank sent a secret letter to berlusconi the letter was made public by the courier newspaper and reminds berlusconi of certain key measures the e.c.b. was expecting from. these were structural reforms in favor of complete liberalisation of local public services through large scale privatization. this secret letterhead major consequences as the european central bank has no power to enforce specific policies on any member state. it was a judgment the judgment of the. absolutely dramatic circumstances where forty percent of the g.d.p. of the. was under attack. one of. the berlusconi government did in fact implements many of the measures proposed in the letter it also tried covertly to reintroduce provisions for the privatization of water which the italian people had voted down in the referendum the constitutional court intervenes and said no you cannot range of years. legal provisions to of been repealed as a result of our for us. this prompted european commissioner olli rehn to write another letter to berlusconi

broader question looking at all of this and taking it into account, what does it mean for the european central banke rates before he leaves? anna: setting up a good conversation with peter chatwell , director european rates strategy, mizuho international. .et's pick up on the ecb you believe despite the weakness ,n the data, the ecb will hike and the market will be jolted by that. peter: yes, and the reason for to be a central expectation that the u.s. economy in 2020 is going to be .lose to a recession expectations of fed monetary policy at that point will be they will be moving to rate cuts. that means there is a narrow window of opportunity for the ecb to have a monetary tightening cycle. if they put rates up and get them above the burden of negative rates on the banking sector, they have a narrow window of opportunity to do this. the end of 2019 through 2020 is the only point they have to deliver this. the economy will then be the contraction in 2021. unless they can do this, we have to about the impact it will have on banks, how that will weigh on bank earnings. and passing on monetary policy.

and mario draghi the departing and incoming directors of the european central bank sent a secret letter to berlusconi the letter was made public by the courier newspaper and reminds berlusconi of certain key measures the e.c.b. was expecting from its city. these were structural reforms in favor of complete liberalization of local public services through large scale privatization. this secret letterhead major consequences as the european central bank has no power to enforce specific policies on any member state. it was a judgment the judgment of the. absolutely dramatic circumstances where forty percent of the g.d.p. of the. attack. one of. the berlusconi government did in fact implements many of the measures proposed in the letter it also tried covertly to reintroduce provisions for the privatization of water which the italian people had voted down in the referendum the course official court intervenes and no you cannot rein traduce. legal provisions to being repealed as a result of a referral. this prompted european commissioner olli rand to write another letter to berlusconi seeking c

over in frankfurt, the european central bank announced that it would hold interest rates at historic lows. government in frankfurt filed this report. >> if there was any hope in germany for an ecb rate hike, all hope has evaporated. mario dhragi said that when the markets placed the first rate hike in 2020, it shows they have understood over reaction. some complicated what was said by the ecb president. no rate hike by the ecb in 2019. the latest consumer prprice inflatioion data as s well as wr economomic growth in the eurozoe seems to not allow it. the weaker growth was underlined again this thursday by several purchasing managers. mainly from the german manufacturing sector where this index has fallen below 50 points. that is the level indicating a contraction of the sector of the german economy. >> that was conrad. here is a reminder of the top stories we are following for you. street violence took place between opposition and security forces. venezuela's powerful military said that it would stand behind president maduro. they claimed juan guaido staged a coup. this man was just

we've got the european central bank meeting coming up in a couple of hour's time, but we've had a batch of data. the pmi numbers from france choomg it's double in four years. germany. right now we just saw the composite numbers coming out for all of the euro zone let's go through those the flash composite tmi number has come in at 50.7. this is much lower than the reuters poll of 51.4 it's also a drop from where we were back in december at 51.1. just to give you some context, these pmi numbers are the lowest since july 2013. the services pmi numbers, again, the lowest since august 2013 the manufacturing pmi numbers, the lowest since november 2014 we really have seen a bit of a dip in terms of overall activity in the background, and i think this is a very interesting setup as get into the ecb meeting. let's not forget back in december dragi did mention that the risks were broadly balanced. since then the data has deteriorated, and it will be interesting to see whether or not they incorporate this latest batch of weak pmi numbers into consideration. nancy. >> regarding the money launderin

well buying just as the european central bank winds down its assets purchasing program we're seeing somediscouraging figures especially from december i'm not going to make a personal prediction but i can tell you what the comments are saying and some of them are saying that one of the worst things we have to fear is fear itself if we worry too much too much about unjustified things and we might just worry ourselves into a into a recession because we're spending too little so looking at these data that we've seen what we have here is headline inflation that includes energy prices and it's a very volatile goes up and down while core inflation is stable the manufacturing numbers that we've seen include in december the protests in france also negative of course we have negative things happening like the trade dispute but we also got to be careful not to let that way down to have really if you say you got the numbers down what you're saying is this is all psychological what about the trade school next week what's the likelihood of result there because i'm sure a lot of that is also very psych

the european commission european central bank and the international monetary fund have provided greece with bailout loans totaling two hundred eighty nine billion euros. in return for massive public spending cuts. national debt remains high. twice the country's annual economic output. poverty and unemployment haven't disappeared either athens still has to maintain public spending restrictions as a condition for delaying repayment deadlines. economic growth is slow so there still aren't enough jobs. young people are leaving a country in which they see no real future for up to five great university graduates move abroad and not only graduates since the crisis began almost eight hundred thousand greeks have left roughly a tenth of the population. leaving because problems such as ingrained corruption which helped spark the crisis are not being tackled effectively if at all. greece is being paralyzed by the rigid austerity measures a state analysts fear that could last decades until greece has paid off its debt. its goldbach sheesh graft or brutal and in greece it's called fuck you lucky mo

." >>> trade was one of the reasons why the head of th european central bank issued a downbeat outlook andne war of weaker growth ahead for the eurozone. >> the risk around the euro area growth outlook have moved to thn downside account of the persistence of uncertainties related to the geopolitical factors and the threat of both their abilities in emerging markets and financial market volatility. >> drhi's comments have some wondering whether the bank will delay any re increases. current guidance points toib po hikes later this year. >>> th report on the labor market stiws it's firing on all cylinders. the number of americans filing applications for unemployment benefits fell 13,000 to drop below 200,000 for the first time since 1969. economists note that a str g labor market is the pillar of consumer spending, and thatp could h offset fears of a slowing economy. >>> coming up, thinking twice. s eagereowners aren't to remodel as they once were. >>> senator elizabeth warren is aportedly planning to propose wealth tax on the richest americans. according to cnbc, citing an economic advis