Central Banks
Lagarde Says ECB Is Watching Markets After French Turbulence
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European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said officials are being “attentive” to financial market-developments, shortly after her colleague Philip Lane said he’s not worried about French turbulence.
The policymakers responded to questions that followed a week of turmoil that wiped $258 billion from the market capitalization of the country’s stocks and caused the yield on France’s bonds to widen compared with German equivalents.