Eurozone countries urged to name candidates to succeed ECB'S Lagarde - Yahoo Finance

Countries who use the euro as a common currency have until this Friday to nominate candidates to succeed Christine Lagarde as president of the European Central Bank (ECB). Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis has urged member states to put forward candidates, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The group of 21 countries will discuss the nominations at its upcoming meeting next week in Brussels. The ECB's top job will become vacant earlier than expected. Lagarde announced last week that she would leave the central bank on February 7, almost nine months before the end of her regular term.