Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) should actively fight inflation until people feel price stability in their everyday lives, according to Governing Council member Robert Holzmann. “The risk of over-tightening seems dwarfed by the risk of doing too little,” Holzmann told a conference Monday in Budapest. “Monetary policy must continue to show its teeth until we see a credible convergence ...

  Bloomberg All it took was a strong US jobs report to expose the fragility of last week’s bond rally in Europe. Within minutes of the print, German bonds had erased almost half of their day-before rally, which had been turbocharged by expectations central banks were nearing an end to their hiking cycles. Jubilation is giving way to fresh anxiety ...

  Bloomberg European stocks and US equity futures slumped as an unexpectedly strong US jobs report raised the prospect of more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. Concern over US-China geopolitical tensions also weighed on sentiment. The Stoxx Europe 600 index dropped more than 1% after closing on February 3 in a bull market, with the technology and real estate ...