News about Christine Lagarde, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Central bankers who gathered in Portugal this week focused on ways that Europe could improve its competitiveness with the ...

I think it’s an awakening. It’s a big awakening. Financial Times But the gap with the United States has widened over time. Christine Lagarde Yes, it has widened over the last 30 years.

The fragmentation of the world economy into rival blocs led by the United States and China threatens to destabilize global commerce, increase inflation and weaken growth, Christine Lagarde, the ...

The independence of central banks, which allows policymakers to operate free from political meddling, is considered ...

The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, is at the heart of a battle for its independence, facing unprecedented political pressure from President Donald Trump.

The impact of a potential trade war with the United States and massive increases in European defense spending and government borrowing are looming over Thursday’s policy meeting at the European ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde spelled out the cost of a trade war with the United States for the euro zone's economy for the first time on Thursday and ...

EUR/USD tumbles during the North American session, down 0.38% following the release of economic data from the United States ...

The Federal Reserve would have cut interest rates by now if President Donald Trump's tariffs weren't so big, central bank chief Jerome Powell said Tuesday ...

But what I observe is that all our countries – European Union Member States, China, the United States and many other countries – are intrinsically bound by supply chains.

The Bloomberg Dollar Index has fallen by as much as nine percent since January, while the DXY index shows a decline of around ...