European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde speaking Friday

<p>0740 GMT, 0340 US Eastern time: Opening remarks by European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde at the joint IEA-ECB-EIB conference on "Ensuring an orderly energy transition: Europe’s competitiveness and financial stability in a period of global energy transformation" in Paris, France.</p><p>We heard from Lagarde earlier this week:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-lagarde-recent-indicators-point-to-further-weakness-in-the-third-quarter-20230925/" target="_blank" rel="follow" data-article-link="true">ECB's Lagarde: Recent indicators point to further weakness in the third quarter</a></li></ul><p>More of the same coming today?</p>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.