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Europe’s economy stagnated late last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output.
The ECB's deposit rate was cut to 2.75% from 3%, the lowest in nearly two years. It was the fifth cut by the ECB in its last six meetings, and came after the Federal Reserve on Wednesday stood pat on rates and signaled it was in no hurry to deliver further cuts.
The European stock markets closed higher in Thursday trading as The Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.90%, Germany's DAX gained 0.41%, the FTSE 100 in London increased 1.04%, France's CAC 40 was up 0.88%, and the Swiss Market Index closed 0.
The European Central Bank is cutting its key interest rate, a step to boost an economy that’s struggling to grow as consumers burned by inflation warily eye price tags and businesses try to chart a course amid political turmoil in leading economies France and Germany.
The economy returned to stagnation as 2024 drew to a close, a blow to its hopes for a recovery as it braces for the possibility that Trump will deliver a long-threatened increase in tariffs.
The ECB's deposit rate was cut to 2.75% from 3%, the lowest in nearly two years. The ECB said the disinflation process is well on track and is set to return to its 2% medium-term target this year.
However, higher U.S. tariffs would likely slow that rebound, if not stall it completely. Economists at Berenberg Bank estimate that a 10% tariff on all U.S. imports from the eurozone would reduce the growth rate by as much as half of a percentage point within a year.