European Central Bank

ORLEANS, France (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will keep its loose and growth-supportive monetary policy stance in place for "quite a long time", ECB executive board members said on Friday. With the euro zone economy stuck in recession, the ECB...

* Fears grow over banks addicted to ECB support * ECB could use bank supervisor insight to target weaklings * Move could see banks cut off from Frankfurt's lifeline By John O'Donnell BRUSSELS, May 17 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could use its...

LONDON (Reuters) - Supervisors across the European Union will examine the way that top banks classify and value loans and other assets to ensure that the stress tests they conduct do a better job of finding any problems. The European Banking Authority...

* ECB stress tests expected to reveal capital hole * Analysts estimate 40-60 billion gross capital shortfall * Mid-sized banks most exposed to new capital gaps * Cash calls may further weaken influence of banking foundations * Italian state may end up...

GENOA, Italy (Reuters) - A deepening recession and banking stress tests could find Italy's mid-sized lenders short of billions of euros, putting the state on the hook for a new wave of cash calls and triggering an overhaul of how they do business. Even...

* Euro zone annual inflation down to 1.2 pct in April * Bloc's trade surplus widens to 22.9 bln euros in March By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS, May 16 (Reuters) - Falling prices in Germany and France pulled euro zone consumer inflation to a three-year low...

LONDON (Reuters) - A wave of investor demand that has allowed Deutsche Bank and two other lenders to raise six billion euros ($7.7 billion)in new share capital in the past month is unlikely to prompt other European banks to go to their shareholders for...

NICOSIA (Reuters) - When the Cyprus bank run began earlier this year, Russians set much of the pace. Documents seen by Reuters show that as the Mediterranean island headed towards financial meltdown in March, most notable among companies transferring...

WASHINGTON — Europe's recession stretched into the first three months of the year, making it the single-currency region's longest downturn and raising concerns about its effect on the U.S. recovery. The 17-nation Eurozone economy contracted 0.2%...

GENEVA (Reuters) - As British Prime Minister David Cameron struggles to accommodate eurosceptics in his own party, trade experts warn that quitting the European Union would force Britain not just to rework trade relations with the EU, but also with the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should stop buying Italian government debt if Italy failed to meet its debt reduction requirements, a senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday. The ECB...

* Correlations falling across equities * Gap between cheap and expensive is narrower * Long-short hedge funds, earnings momentum to benefit By Simon Jessop LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Company earnings should become a more useful guide to European share...