By David Barwick – SKOPJE (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Friday said that the ECB had probably reached the peak of the current tightening cycle.
29 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that the ECB was interested in having monetary policy take climate into yet greater consideration than currently.
29 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 14 September, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 11 September .
27 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) - European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Wednesday that a further rate hike by the ECB could not be excluded under conditions of high uncertainty.
27 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The October monetary policy meeting of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council would be a sensible occasion for authorities to start discussing seriously the further reduction of the ECB’s balance sheet, in the view of a Eurosystem insider who spoke to Econostream recently.
26 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that inflation was expected to remain too high for too long, but that key interest rates were now at levels that, if kept there long enough, would help restore price stability.
25 September 2023
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday suggested that concerns of monetary policy overtightening based on the marked deceleration of money growth were misplaced.
25 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The likelihood that the European Central Bank will or won’t need to hike again is probably closer to being balanced than markets realise, in the view of a Eurosystem insider who spoke to Econostream recently.
25 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos on Monday reiterated that setting monetary policy in a very data-dependent way allowed policymakers to skirt the dangers of going too far and not going far enough with policy.
25 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday said that the risks of monetary policy tightening going too far had reached the point of symmetry versus the risks of not going far enough.
25 September 2023