BRUSSELS, May 24 (Reuters) - Issuing jointly backed European debt would not make sense until the euro zone reaches some kind of fiscal union, the European Central Bank 's President Mario Draghi said...
* Repo rates say elevated despite European worries * Euribor rates reach fresh 2-year lows * Fitch data shows U.S. lending to European banks down 2 pct * Lower demand, cheap ECB lines...
Europe's) leaders will have to handle the issues surrounding a Greek exit from EMU. From calming civil unrest to recapitalizing the banks to getting a new currency going, "leaving is messy," says a former ECB member. Post your comment!
FRANKFURT, May 23 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has given its backing to Greece's plans to recapitalise its banks but raised a number of key questions about how the fund set up to do the job...
The ECB has set up a working group to focus on worsening financial conditions due to Greece, reports Die ..... Asmussen. Further market deterioration is likely to instigate new anti-crisis measures from the ECB , they say. Post your comment!
Spanish PM Rajoy will use the occasion of a meeting of EU leaders today to ask the ECB to purchase his country's bonds, reports El Mundo. "Enough is never enough," says Adam Johnson, recalling Spanish banks
FRANKFURT, May 23 (Reuters) - Key euro zone three-month bank-to-bank lending rates fell to new two-year lows on Wednesday as the ECB 's injections of ultra-cheap, three-year funding exerted downward...
same which provided a spark. Supposedly there's a rumor and story going around that Greece is being supported by a secret ECB lending facility ELA (Emergency Liquidity Assistance) of €100 billion. This signals more trouble than the rosy Kumbaya comments
* Bridge recap to reopen access to ECB funding (Updates with Greek stability fund injecting bank capital)
each month, says BCA. The European Central Bank would then most likely stop providing ..... and no injections from the ECB , the banks would be bust ..... the measures instituted by the European Central Bank , with its three-year loan program