Category: Structural

ECB’s de Guindos Flags Structural Driver in Inflation Rise

FRANKFURT―The recent rise in euro zone inflation has a structural driver in supply disruptions and the European Central Bank has to watch out for any sign of wages increases, ECB vice-president Luis de Guindos said on Monday. The ECB officially expects price growth in the euro zone, which hit 3.4 percent last month, to ease…


Boeing Cuts 787 Production as New Structural Problem Discovered

SEATTLE—Boeing said on Tuesday it would cut its 787 production rate as it works through a new production-related structural defect in its troubled twin-aisle airliner program. The company now forecasts delivering fewer than half of the lingering 100 or so 787s in its inventory this year—instead of the “vast majority” it had expected—as it continues…