Shares in Monte dei Paschi di Siena were suspended after sliding by 8.5% on news of a stark ECB warning for the Italian bank.

The ECB won’t be deflected by the Italian political and budget drama and will raise interest rates next year, a economics firm has predicted.

The ECB held its penultimate monetary policy meeting of 2018 last week.

Eurozone banks expect demand for corporate and household loans to increase further in the third quarter with credit standards also easing, the ECB said in a quarterly survey of the bloc’s top banks.

The ECB should keep providing a shield to the government securities of all monetary union members to avoid a dismantling of the euro system, a top politician from Italy’s ruling coalition said.

ECB chief economist Peter Praet confirmed that next week’s policy meeting will be pivotal for reaching a decision on when to end the institution’s bond-buying programme.

A big jump in energy prices has pushed inflation across the 19-country eurozone back to the European Central Bank's (ECB) goal in May, official figures showed.

The ECB meets on Thursday against a backdrop of concern about a global trade spat and a softening in eurozone economic data that could potentially hamper its plans to unwind its extraordinary monetary stimulus.

European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi has agreed to come to Ireland and appear before an Oireachtas committee to discuss the banking sector and oversight of institutions.

The head of Latvia's central bank has said he will not resign following an investigation into suspected bribery.

Ireland yesterday bowed out of the race to take one of the top jobs at the European Central Bank.

Latvia's top banking official, a key member of the European Central Bank, has been detained after being questioned for hours by anti-corruption authorities amid accusations of bribery and money laundering in the European nation's financial system.

The economic committee of the European Parliament sees Irish central bank governor Philip Lane as a stronger candidate for the post of European Central Bank vice president than Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos, its chairman has said.

Economists at the European Central Bank said the US corporate tax cut should lift the world's largest economy in the short term - but could erode the tax base in European countries by intensifying global competition for lower rates.

Inflation has dipped modestly across the 19-country eurozone in December largely because of a moderation in the growth of energy price rises, figures show.

The outcome of last Thursday’s ECB’s Governing Council meeting was keenly awaited by markets as it would set monetary policy for nearly all of the coming year, writes Oliver Mangan

The first hike in interest rates may be longer away than thought as the ECB holds off for almost a further three years despite the eurozone expanding at a fast clip, a leading economist has predicted.

The ECB’s €2.3 trillion worth of asset buys propped up growth but failed to boost inflation and may have actually increased risks to financial stability, research published by the Bundesbank has shown.

Last week’s ECB meeting concluded, as expected, with the central bank leaving its key interest rates unchanged at -0.4% for the deposit rate and 0% for the refinancing rate.

The European Central Bank (ECB), led by Mario Draghi, has taken a tiny step closer to reversing support for financial markets, but interest rates will stay low for at least another two years, experts predicted.

Eurozone inflation accelerated to the fastest pace since January 2013, providing fresh arguments to those calling for an exit from the European Central Bank’s monetary stimulus programme.

New Irish home loan rates remain twice as high as the eurozone average, while the rates Irish banks pay households are about three times lower, according to the latest figures from the Central Bank.

The European Central Bank has decided to extend its bond-buying stimulus programme by another nine months to support the economy amid increasing turbulence from populist politics.

The ECB has ramped up efforts to tackle the mountain of soured loans in many eurozone banks, seeking to repair damage caused by years of lax supervision and feeble economic growth.

The European Central Bank has cut all of its main interest rates including a surprise reduction in the main refinancing rate to 0% from 0.05%.

The European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates today.

It’s not only European Central Bank stimulus that has the potential to hurt the euro.

The European Central Bank is expected to make no changes to interest rates when it meets later today.

The European Central Bank sees scope for further cuts to its deposit rate after the one announced last month, as inflation risks missing the ECB’s already lowered forecasts, minutes of the bank’s December meeting showed yesterday.

The agreed draft of the Banking Inquiry Committee's report recommends that the State launches legal action against the ECB over its stance on burning bondholders.

The European Central Bank has cut one of its key interest rates in an attempt to boost lending and help the growth in the 19-country eurozone economy.

The deputy governor of the Central Bank has warned that public sector pay restrictions and the lure of better pay at the European Central Bank are damaging its ability to retain staff.

The European Central Bank is ready to act quickly to boost anaemic inflation in the Eurozone, its president said yesterday, offering the strongest hint yet that the bank will unveil fresh stimulus measures at its December 3 meeting.

The euro fell for a third day yesterday, its longest stretch of losses this month, on speculation that European Central Bank president Mario Draghi will consider adding to monetary stimulus.

European bailout fund supervisors have approved the release of billions of euros to help rebuild Greece’s devastated economy just as a new debt payment looms.

Eurozone ministers have agreed to give Greece a €7bn bridging loan from an EU-wide fund to keep its finances afloat until a bailout is approved.

The cost of credit facing many businesses was unchanged in the latest quarter, but the rates banks here are charging companies are much higher than elsewhere in the eurozone, according to Central Bank data published yesterday.

The European Central Bank has kept its emergency liquidity assistance to Greek banks unchanged at €88.6bn, and did not impose higher haircuts which would have reduced the sum available and caused banks to collapse immediately.