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ECB may get earful on prices this year

Bloomberg If European Central Bank (ECB) officials use their review of monetary policy this year as a chance to connect with ordinary people, they need to be ready for some plain truths. At the heart of the assessment, likely to be announced on January 23, is how price stability should be defined and targeted. But ask citizens how they feel ...

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Economists fall out of favour in a negative-rate test case

Bloomberg In the country that’s had negative interest rates longer than anywhere else on Earth, economists are going through a bit of a rough patch. Since Denmark introduced subzero rates in mid-2012, citizens have struggled to get their heads around a world in which savers are punished, borrowers are rewarded and the basic laws of risk-return feel like ancient mythology. ...

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Macron betters stock options to lure tech talent to France

Bloomberg Emmanuel Macron’s pre-Davos summit for tech executives will hold some goodies for start-ups. In the third edition of his “Choose France” summit, timed to catch global CEOs in Paris on their way to the Swiss Alps’ World Economic Forum, the French president will detail measures in his 2020 budget that have improved stock options for start-ups in France. Macron ...

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