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ECB will ease policy if inflation doesn't pick up, says Mario Draghi

The ECB has undershot its inflation target of just under 2 percent since 2013 and a slowdown in growth amid a global trade war has raised the risk that price growth will ease further

External commercial borrowings down by nearly 20% in April to $3.16 billion

Of the total external commercial borrowings (ECBs) in April 2019, $2.66 billion was raised through the automatic route, $500 million through approval route while the rest through RDBs

European Central Bank tightens collateral rules for tapping its cash

The Eurosystem is excluding investment funds as eligible issuers and guarantors for the collateralisation of Eurosystem credit operations, ECB said

Attempts to target exchange rates risk setting off a currency war: ECB

The currency volatility comes at an especially sensitive time for the ECB as it prepares to remove stimulus after nearly three years and 2 trillion euros worth of asset buys

Banks get level-playing field in ECB refinance

Currently, Indian corporates are permitted to refinance their existing ECBs at a lower all-in-cost

IMF favours ECB's proposal to raise provisions on bad loans

The ECB proposed requiring lenders to increase loan loss provisions on bad loans

ECB stimulus to continue as euro zone economic outlook uncertain

Inflation remains below target, despite stronger economic growth in the euro zone

ECB likely to stick to stimulus on Thursday as economic outlook mixed

ECB to nudge up its forecasts for economic growth in euro zone but trim its estimates for inflation

From politics to policy, bond markets count down to European Central Bank

Investors will watch ECB President Mario Draghi for any change in his forward guidance

ECB maintains stimulus, tells critics to be patient

Mario Draghi, told critics to wait for the euro zone's recovery to take firm hold

ECB keeps rates, asset-buying plan unchanged as expected

Asset purchases will be 60 bn pounds per month from Apr-Dec 2017

A Broadway musical's lessons for Europe

It has resonance for policymakers, especially technocrats at European Central Bank

ECB's Lane says monetary economics not broken in Europe

Monetary economics has not broken down in the Eurozone & a gradual recovery from the bloc's debt crisis will allow interest rates eventually to normalise

Lower for longer, ECB scales back asset buys

Promise protracted stimulus to aid a still fragile recovery, and dismissed any talk of tapering the programme away

ECB unexpectedly cuts asset buys, extends until end 2017

Leaves interest rate unchanged

ECB's Constancio warns of political, economic risk from Trump's win

US and European shares have been rising and bond prices falling as investors expect a Trump administration to cut taxes and spend more

ECB will provide stimulus until sustained inflation rebound

Inflation has missed the ECB's 2% target for three and a half years and is expect to undershoot until late 2018 at the earliest

ECB holds rates, seen charting course to more easing in December

ECB president Mario Draghi kept the deposit rate at minus 0.4% and maintained ECB's guidance for rates to stay at their current or lower levels for an extended period

Euro zone banks to tighten access to corporate lending: ECB survey

The survey was conducted in September

ECB 'taper' talk hits stocks, sterling hits 31-year low

The pan-European STOXX index fell 0.7 per cent