Christine Lagarde will need all her skills to steer ECB through trying times
10 November 2019 |
3:39 pm
The European Central Bank's first female president inherits an almost empty toolbox from her predecessor — at a time when persistently low inflation and weak growth are showing the limits of monetary policy.
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