Carolynn Look

  • LISBON, PORTUGAL &#8211; MAY 21: The President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde delivers remarks during a joint press conference held with European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni, the Eurogrup President Paschal Donohoe and the<br /> Director of the European Mechanism of Stability Klaus Regling at the end of the first of the informal meetings of Eurogroup and ECOFIN in Centro Cultural de Belém during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic on May 21, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Eurogroup is an informal body of Eurozone states that discuss matters relating to the area&#8217;s single currency. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images)Finance

    The ECB is boosting bond buying even as the Eurozone economic forecast looks up

    By Carolynn Look and Bloomberg
  • Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), is displayed on a mobile phone during a live stream video of the central bank&#8217;s virtual rate decision news conference in Frankfurt, Germany on Thursday, June 4, 2020. The ECB said it would fight the coronavirus recession with a bigger-than-anticipated increase to its emergency bond-buying program.Finance

    ‘Action had to be taken:’ ECB stuns the markets with a new €600 billion spending plan

    By Alexander Weber, Carolynn Look, and others
  • Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, speaks to the media. On Thursday, the central bank announced a new ultra-cheap loan program to help out businesses and homeowners ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. Wire photography: Thomas Lohnes—Getty ImagesFinance

    Europe turns to a familiar tool—negative rates—in bid to lend its way out of the crisis

    By Paul Gordon, Carolynn Look, and others
  • US Vice President Mike Pence speaks on the future of the US relationship with China at the Wilson Center's inaugural Frederic V. Malek Public Service Leadership lecture, in Washington, DC, on October 24, 2019. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)International

    China Slams Pence Human Rights Criticism, Saying U.S. Should Fix Its Own Inequality First

    By Carolynn Look, Jenny Leonard, and others