Bloomberg European Union leaders are about to begin their tussle over who should run the region’s monetary policy in the era after Mario Draghi. Heads of government will sit down for dinner in Brussels, in the aftermath of EU parliamentary elections, to kick off talks on the next suite of top political appointments. Among them is arguably the bloc’s most-powerful ...

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve’s influential staff seems to have lost confidence that its bosses will achieve the central bank’s 2 percent target, if the minutes of the Fed’s meeting are anything to go by. The staff forecast presented to policy makers saw inflation falling shy of 2 percent“over the medium term’’ even as the job market was projected to tighten ...

Bloomberg Banco de Mexico’s top markets official is leaving for the Bank for International Settlements after more than two decades at the central bank, according to people familiar with the plans. Jaime Cortina, director general of operations and payment systems, plans to leave in the coming weeks, according to five people who asked not to be named because the decision ...