ECB raises interest rates for second time this year
Most outlets led with the European Central Bank's decision to increase interest rates for the second time this year. Aaj News highlighted the move as a response to the Middle East conflict driving up energy prices and threatening inflation, while the Business Recorder linked the rate hike to inflation caused by the "Iran war" and potential fuel price increases. Both excerpts framed the action as an effort to manage inflation but differed slightly in the cause they emphasized — the broader Mideast conflict versus the specific Iran war.
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ECB raises interest rates
BERLIN: The European Central Bank raised interest rates on Thursday for the second time this year, seeking to quell an energy-driven rise in inflation triggered by the Iran war even as it warned that fuel prices could move higher. A month of relative calm has been shattered since end-August as the US and Iran hit military, shipping and energy assets, sending oil back above USD100 a barrel and r...
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ECB hikes borrowing costs to combat Mideast energy shock
The European Central Bank raised interest rates Thursday for the second time this year as renewed fighting in the Middle East sends energy prices soaring, threatening to push widespread inflation higher. As widely expected, the central bank for the 21 eurozone nations lifted its benchmark rate a quarter percentage point to 2.5 per cent, its highest level since March last year. It was the ECB’s ...
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