Silvia Wadhwa reports for CNBC from Frankfurt. She regularly reports for programmes including "Squawk Box Europe," "Worldwide Exchange," "European Closing Bell" as well as the channel's U.S. programming.
Wadwha is one of the best known financial journalists in Germany. She has covered the Frankfurt markets and the German economy for top news organisations including Reuters and German business daily Handelsblatt. She joined CNBC Europe in 1998.
CNBC's Simon Hobbs reports Spain formally requested an EU bailout for its banks; and an update on the Greek debt buyback plan, with CNBC's Silvia Wadhwa. Also, an update on U.S. markets, with CNBC's Bob Pisani.
CNBC's Silvia Wadhwa has the update on whether the euro zone is ready to give Greece approval for more funding.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel should use Tuesday’s official trip to Athens to “recognize the euro is dead, and bury it,” veteran economist Roger Nightingale told CNBC.
CNBC's Silvia Wadhwa reports the latest details from Draghi's ECB news conference, indicating interest rates will remain unchanged at 0.75%, and he is ready to activate the bond-buying plan.
"Super" Mario Draghi of the European Central Bank has a super problem: the markets might love him, the bankers might love him, politicians from Athens to Dublin might love him, but the German people don't. He's been called anything from "bankers' buddy" to "counterfeiter of coins", and depicted by the tabloid press as a devil sporting horns and a trident, set against a distinctly angelic Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann.
Praise all around for Mario Draghi and his ECB's bold strategy of "conditional" bond buying across the euro zone, if and when deemed necessary. "This is the big game changer", insists Polish finance minister Jacev rostowski, echoing what virtually all of his colleagues both inside and out of the EU have voiced over these past weeks.
You know me. I am like a Joan of Arc of the European Central Bank. For the better part of its existence I have reported about and vigorously defended its mandate and most of the time its policies and strategy. Even at times when it was facing a barrage of criticism from infuriated or frustrated markets. So nobody, nobody ever accuse me of being an ECB-, let alone euroskeptic.
There might be those who say with a smirk "About time!", when these latest rumors about a possible resignation of — dare I say — teutonically stubborn German central bank president Jens Weidmann flittered through the headlines.
