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By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday said the ECB was confident enough to cut interest rates in June.
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Thursday said that the pace of ECB policy easing did not need to be rushed.
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Thursday expressed support for the ECB’s data-dependent, meeting-by-meeting approach to setting monetary policy.
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Thursday dismissed arguments based on the idea of ‘bumpy’ inflation and warned against taking for granted the resilience of Europe’s labour markets.
By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Monetary policy could be eased if it became more certain that inflation was sustainably declining to the European Central Bank's 2% target, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said Thursday.
By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Although European Central Bank interest rates would likely be cut in June, monetary policy would remain restrictive and it would take a while to reach neutral rates, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Thursday.
By Isabel Teles – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Wednesday said that under conditions of volatility, the role of economic forecasts needed to be reassessed by central banks.
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that the ECB could not disregard the implications of foreign exchange fluctuations for inflation.
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – The growing use of AI and large language models (ML) in banking could worsen sector crises if the associated challenges are not addressed, European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
By Isabel Teles and David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Wednesday said that once evidence showed that price stability was close to being achieved, then it would be time to reduce interest rates.