Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) will discuss boosting its regular asset purchases once the pandemic-era emergency stimulus comes to an end, but any such increase is uncertain, Governing Council member Madis Muller said. While the euro area’s recovery should allow the ECB to end its 1.85 trillion-euro ($2.2 trillion) pandemic bond-buying program in March, officials will discuss how to …

Bloomberg The Bank of Spain expects inflation to peak in November before easing back below the European Central Bank (ECB) 2% target next year. The central bank raised its forecasts to 2.1% in 2021 and 1.7% in 2022 from a previous 1.9% and 1.2% respectively. The spike in inflation, driven mostly by record high electricity prices, will likely be transitory, …

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank said trading accelerated again over the past weeks, one of the few large investment banks to give guidance on the quarter after a strong first half of the year. “July started off pretty muted for the markets in general,” Mark Fedorcik, who heads the investment bank, said at a virtual conference hosted by Barclays Plc. “We saw …