Banking Analysis: As rate cuts loom will AIB’s net interest income hold up or ‘sink like a stone’?State officials warned ECB rate cuts could hurt AIB’s profits. We asked experts how the bank is faring as the prospect of interest reductions draw near
Finance ECB’s Villeroy says oil uncertainty won’t stop June rate cutVilleroy has been a vocal supporter of rates cut but more hawkish colleagues have expressed varying levels of conviction
Banking Profits at Bank of America’s Irish arm surgeThe US investment bank employs more than 1,000 people in Dublin, which acts as its European headquarters
Economy Mortgage interest growth slowed in February with rate cut ‘relief’ on the horizon Newly agreed mortgages came with an average interest rate of 4.29 per cent as Irish consumers continue to pay more than their EU counterparts
Economy Consumers expect Eurozone to contract in next year - ECBConsumers expect prices to rise by 3.1 per cent in the next year - down from 3.3 per cent
Shadow Banking Explainer: why Ireland could be sitting on a €4.5bn private credit bubbleShadow banks have more than €14 billion in additional capital ready to deploy in Ireland, according to survey conducted by Davy
Interest Rates Philip Lane: ECB to make ‘judgement call’ on interest rates soonPhilip Lane said that he expected inflation to stabilise at 2 per cent in the next year
Stock Take Analysis: Lagarde faces career-defining 12 months as pressure mounts on ECB to cut ratesThe former French politician must take the lead on cutting interest rates to save the Eurozone economy from recession
Banking Ian Guider: Little or no incentive for AIB or Bank of Ireland to pass on rate cuts Lack of competition in Irish market means there is nothing to force main banks to reduce burden on mortgage holders
Banking PTSB announces reduced mortgage rates for new customersDecrease is not likely to trigger further interest rate cuts across the market, with the ECB not expected to reduce interest rates until June
Economy To cut or not to cut: ECB governors on when to slash interest rates Officials on the bank’s governing council are backing cutting rates from June, with some leaving the door open to reductions from April
Economy ECB holds interest rates above 4% despite improved inflationary outlookMarch meeting marked the fourth time the lender has rates after a marathon stream of interest increases
Interest Rates Premature ECB rate cuts ‘would be worse’ than delaying them, economists sayIn a survey, respondents now predict three, rather than four, rate cuts this year
Inflation Christine Lagarde: New wage data is encouraging, but ECB needs more convincing on inflationThe president of the European Central Bank was speaking in Belgium
Interest Rates Markets pare ECB rate cut expectations on the back of strong French economic dataFrench manufacturing and services data beat economists’ expectations leading to more muted rate-cutting expectations
Tech Euro area faces ‘competitive crisis’ in technology, senior ECB executive saysIsabel Schnabel said the ECB had undertaken an independent review of the recovery and resilience facility, which had allocated €914 million to Ireland
Economy Inflation must fall to 2% before lowering interest rates – ECB’s Philip LaneECB officials are increasingly confident that inflation is heading back to target of 2 per cent and are gearing up to start lowering rates later this year
Interest Rates OECD warns Fed, ECB and major central banks not to halt fight on inflation too earlyThe OECD’s warning comes as the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve begin to shift away from aggressive tightening and signal their next moves will be to cut rates
Stock Take ECB chief Christine Lagarde douses talk of rate cuts even as inflation moves towards 2% targetWhile falling energy costs have resulted in lower inflation, the banks’s decision on when to begin cutting rates is far from straightforward
Inflation ECB’s Philip Lane warns shrinking profit margins key to achieving lower inflationBusinesses will be able to partly absorb rising labour costs due to their level of profitability