By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Sunday said the current inflation shock was very different from that of 2021 and 2022 and that the ECB had been right to wait before deciding on any interest rate hike.
3 May 2026
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Saturday said the ECB would have to react quickly and decisively...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Friday said he was concerned about a higher-for-longer...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said the ECB should respond in June if the inflation...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller said the ECB had not yet needed to raise interest rates...
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 28 April 2026 with Maric Post, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets of the Belgian Debt Agency.
30 April 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Belgium may issue a new green bond in 2027, according to Maric Post, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets at the Belgian Debt Agency.
30 April 2026
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 15 April 2026 and updated on 17 April 2026 with Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
17 April 2026
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – The European Central Bank does not necessarily have to deliver on financial market expectations of ECB interest rate moves, according to Governing Council member Joachim Nagel.
17 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Sunday said the current inflation shock was very different from that of 2021 and 2022 and that the ECB had been right to wait before deciding on any interest rate hike.
3 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Saturday said the ECB would have to react quickly and decisively if higher energy prices began feeding into wages and other prices and inflation expectations started rising.
2 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Friday said he was concerned about a higher-for-longer energy price scenario and would closely monitor indirect effects on inflation from the Middle East war.
1 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said the ECB should respond in June if the inflation outlook did not improve markedly, warning that developments were less favorable than assumed in the central bank’s earlier baseline scenario.
1 May 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 28 April 2026 with Maric Post, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets of the Belgian Debt Agency.
30 April 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Belgium may issue a new green bond in 2027, according to Maric Post, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets at the Belgian Debt Agency.
30 April 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 20 March 2026 with Petra Wehlert, Head of Capital Markets of KfW.
25 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – German investment and development bank KfW is likely to issue another euro green bond in Q2 2026, according to KfW’s Head of Capital Markets, Petra Wehlert.
25 March 2026
As of 30 April 2026
ECB Tone Meter
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde succeeded with great skill in making Thursday’s hold by the Governing Council sound hawkish and cautious at the same time. She made clear why, absent a favorable turn in the Middle East war, the next serious policy question is likely to be when the ECB tightens, not whether it still needs to.
30 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – As expected, the European Central Bank did not raise rates on Thursday, but it did not use the announcement of its rate decision to make the hold sound comfortable.
30 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s quiet period is intended to steady market expectations about monetary policy decisions by prohibiting communication in the seven days before a Governing Council meeting. In the current environment, it has the opposite effect, and that is just one of its drawbacks.
30 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank does not need to feel obliged by markets on Thursday into explicitly validating June rate hike expectations, let alone a 50bp move. But after the latest inflation expectations data and Tuesday’s market reaction, a dovish tone from ECB President Christine Lagarde would fit the moment poorly, even if sounding overly hawkish would also carry risks.
29 April 2026