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A trio of Los Angeles sneakerheads — including the owner of a popular Melrose Avenue shoe boutique — were hit with federal charges as part of years-long investigation into a sophisticated Nike cargo theft ring. The suspects were among 12 people accused of stealing a staggering $2 million worth of Nike shoes from the company’s North American Logistics Center ...

Working natural gas in storage across the United States increased by 32 billion cubic feet (Bcf) in the week ending July 18, compared to the previous seven-day period, to reach 3,056 Bcf, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed in its report on Thursday. On an annual basis, the natural gas stockpiles dipped by 16 billion cubic feet. Meanwhile, ...

In July 2026, DG ECFIN’s flash estimate1 of the consumer confidence indicator2 continued its recovery in both the EU (up 1.9 percentage points (pps) from June, to -15.1) and the euro area (+1.7 pps, to -15.9).3 Despite three consecutive months of improvement, consumer confidence has not yet recovered the losses incurred since February and remains below its ...

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#ecb's Lagarde: Not Seeing Any Second-round Effects - Bbg ECBs Lagarde: Won't See Back Of Me Before 2027, This Captain Is Staying On The Ship - Not Giving Any Forward Guidance, We're Providing Framework Guidance ECB's President Lagarde: Recent developments in the Gulf are alarming. Ecb Lagarde: No `push' For Ecb Rate Hike Today MORE ECB'S LAGARDE: THE BURDEN OF PROOF FOR A RATE HIKE RESTS ON THE DATA #europeancentralbank #ecb #monetarypolicy #interestrates #inflation #energypriceshock #eurozone #christinelagarde

ECB's President Lagarde: Urgent action is needed to strengthen the Euro-area economy MORE ECB'S LAGARDE: FORWARD-LOOKING INDICATORS SUGGEST MODEST GROWTH IN THE MEDIUM TERM #europeancentralbank #ecb #monetarypolicy #interestrates #inflation #energypriceshock #eurozone #christinelagarde Lagarde: Fiscal Responses To Energy Shock Should Be Tailored ECB's President Lagarde: Underlying inflation contained, full effect yet to play out ECB's President Lagarde: Longer energy prices stay high, the more likely to have second round impacts.

ECB President Christine Lagarde explains the Governing Council's monetary policy decisions and answers questions from journalists at the Governing Council press conference held on Thursday, 23 July 2026 at 14:45 CEST in Frankfurt am Main.

In the week ending July 18, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 187,000, a decrease of 22,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 208,000 to 209,000. The 4-week moving average was 207,500, a decrease of 7,250 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's ...

The Governing Council today decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. The outlook for energy prices, while highly volatile, currently stands close to the baseline of the June Eurosystem staff projections and well above the levels recorded prior to the conflict in the Middle East. Uncertainty remains high and the full inflationary impact of the energy shock has yet to play out. The Governing Council is therefore closely monitoring the intensity and duration of the shock, as well as its indirect and second-round effects. The Governing Council is committed to setting monetary policy to ensure that inflation stabilises at its 2% target in the medium term. Ecb Interest Rate Decision (jul) Actual: 2.40% Vs 2.40% Previous; Forecast 2.40% Ecb Deposit Facility Rate (jul) Actual: 2.25% Vs 2.25% Previous; Forecast 2.25% Ecb Marginal Lending Facility Actual: 2.65% Vs 2.65% Previous; Forecast 2.65% ECB not pre-committing to a particular rate path ECB: Outlook for energy prices, while highly volatile, currently stands close to baseline of june Eurosystem staff projections and well above levels recorded prior to conflict in Middle East. ECB keeps interest rates on hold, avoids rattling markets The European Central Bank just decided to keep interest rates unchanged. Through the rearview mirror, this decision clearly makes sense. Headline inflation has actually come down, there are very few signs of knock-on effects from higher energy prices, and the eurozone economy has shown some resilience to the current oil price shock. It’s only survey-based inflation expectations that have gone up and will be a concern for the ECB. Looking ahead, however, the decision of whether to keep interest rates unchanged is not so straightforward. In fact, the latest increase in energy prices has actually pushed the ECB closer to its more severe macro scenarios, calling for another rate hike – at least when following the ECB’s own logic and reaction function, presented at the June meeting. Unless oil prices start dropping significantly over the next weeks, the ECB’s own macro projections in September will call for another rate hike, loud and clear. Against this background, the ECB could have also opted for a rate hike today, following a 'never put off until tomorrow what you can do today' principle. Instead, it seems the central bank got cold feet and didn’t want to break the well-established tradition of never surprising markets that has developed in recent years.

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