By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The jump in oil prices caused by the Middle East war is rapidly feeding into prices in the most oil-dependent sectors of the Eurozone economy, though broader pass-through could be more gradual than in the past, according to the European Central Bank’s latest corporate telephone survey, released on Monday.
4 May 2026
– Despite the weekend and the May 1 holiday in almost all euro area countries, a third of the European Central Bank’s...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Monday said Europe was naive if it continued to apply open-market...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Sunday said the ECB’s policy response to the Middle...
– European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Sunday said the current inflation shock was very different from that...
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) – The jump in oil prices caused by the Middle East war is rapidly feeding into prices in the most oil-dependent sectors of the Eurozone economy, though broader pass-through could be more gradual than in the past, according to the European Central Bank’s latest corporate telephone survey, released on Monday.
4 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Despite the weekend and the May 1 holiday in almost all euro area countries, a third of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council has spoken publicly since President Christine Lagarde’s press conference on Thursday. The message has come across: June is very live.
4 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Monday said Europe was naive if it continued to apply open-market and state-aid rules designed for a global economy that no longer existed.
4 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Sunday said the ECB’s policy response to the Middle East shock would depend on the intensity, duration and transmission channels of the disruption, and that a robust response would be needed if inflation deviated significantly and persistently from target.
3 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 4 May 2026
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Despite the weekend and the May 1 holiday in almost all euro area countries, a third of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council has spoken publicly since President Christine Lagarde’s press conference on Thursday. The message has come across: June is very live.
4 May 2026
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