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Nils Pratley: Behind the verbal gymnastics, the eurozone economy sinks to its knees.
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2014 forecast cut to 0.8% from the 0.9% predicted three months ago as bank says it will reassess policy measures next year
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European Central Bank will reassess stimulus measures in early 2015, and cuts growth and inflation forecasts again
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PMI, a good indicator of growth, sinks to 51.1 from October’s 52.1 leading to warnings of renewed contraction in new year
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Stephany Griffith-Jones: Action needs to be taken on several fronts to avoid a recession, to reassure financial markets, and to provide hope to European citizens
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Hope for a major quantitative easing programme falter as Draghi calls for more reform
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Guardian Comment Network What Gordon Brown got right as prime minister
Peter Hoskin for ConservativeHome, part of the Guardian Comment NetworkPeter Hoskin for ConservativeHome: As the political heavyweight prepares to leave parliament, here are three things he nailed … possibly four. That’s up to you
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Katie Allen: The ECB is eager to warn teenagers about inflation. But as price growth slows, that looks like yesterday’s scare story
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Labour increases pressure on Tories over government cuts after prime minister’s warning as Japan enters recession
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PM says ‘red warning lights are flashing’ against a backdrop of instability and uncertainty, as G20 summit draws to a close
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The prime minister sees threats to Britain’s economy wherever he looks – from the eurozone to the risk of protectionism
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Business Leader: Could Italy be heading for an exit from the euro? It is no longer unthinkable
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Analysis How can the eurozone escape a lost decade?
Larry Elliott, economics editorUnlike the US and the UK, the eurozone has never really shown signs of emerging strongly from the financial crisis and recession of 2008-09
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Hopes rise that the European Central Bank may opt for quantitative easing before Christmas to boost economic activity
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Mario Draghi suggested the bank could act to prevent dangerous deflation in comments cheered by European investors
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Rolling coverage and reaction as the ECB holds its monthly press conference, after leaving interest rates unchanged again
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Market Forces blog FTSE 100 finishes higher after ECB hints, while Randgold Resources recovers but RSA falls
Gold miner pleases market with latest update, as precious metal prices recover some ground
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European Central Bank remains under pressure as economists expect renewed downward pressure on inflation
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The impact of quantitative easing was blunted by unconventional monetary policies and conservative fiscal policies
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European Banking Authority finds €25bn black hole in finances with nine banks in Italy failing the tests
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Ireland’s finance minister Michael Noonan offers assurance that the bank will survive
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The Bank of England has published the minutes of its monthly rate-setting committee, revealing that a majority voted to keep interest rates at 0.5%
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The bank’s aim is to revive economies in the single currency zone that have been hit by a decline in business lending
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Business leader: Berlin’s increasingly hardline stance on spending caps on France and Italy could drive them out of the euro
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Editorial: Tumbling markets, anxieties over the viability of banks and differences over austerity show that the crisis in the eurozone is still very much with us
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Bailouts, riots, recession - key events in the five years of the eurozone crisis
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Greece’s admission in October 2009 that it had a huge black hole in its finances triggered five years of bailouts, market turmoil and protests
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Largest such programme in global financial history had aimed at preventing debt crisis from spreading through the eurozone
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August industrial output slumps 4%, the biggest drop since January 2009
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Mario Draghi, holding off on announcing new measures or revealing more about asset purchases, defends European Central Bank’s role in easing the eurozone crisis
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Guardian business live Mario Draghi defends ECB as anti-austerity protests rock Naples -- business live
The European Central Bank president insists that it helped fix the crisis, amid anti-austerity demonstrations in Italy -
Stock markets fall across UK, Europe and US as sluggish eurozone and global conflict hit economies
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Economics blog Germany’s malaise shows eurozone can’t cut its way to prosperity
Larry Elliott, economics editorThe experiment – German designed, German engineered and German exported – with austerity has failed, writes Larry Elliott
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Guardian business live Lloyds fires eight staff over Libor scandal, and withholds bonuses - as it happened
Lloyds Banking Group has dismissed eight staff over their role in the rigging of benchmark interest rates, and will hold back £3m of unvested bonuses
We should cash-bomb the people - not the banks