By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Euro area wage growth may appear to be receding, based on a couple of important indicators that seem to point to a slowdown, but it would be premature for monetary policymakers to feel relief.
18 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Wednesday said that the ECB should cut interest rates further.
18 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said that the process of monetary policy easing would not be as abrupt as the previous tightening.
18 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks stands ready to remain in his current post of Governor of Latvijas Banka when his first term comes to an end in three months – now the Latvian Parliament just has to agree to the idea.
18 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Monday that he did not disagree with financial market expectations calling for interest rates to come down to 2.5% by mid-2025.
16 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Monday said that if incoming data continued to confirm the ECB's inflation projections, it would be appropriate to gradually reduce the level of monetary policy restrictiveness, but the speed of the process would remain open.
16 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday that the ECB will retain full optionality in its monetary policy, given high uncertainty.
16 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Monday said that the latest rate cut should not be taken as a sign that the ECB would start making similar decisions every six weeks.
16 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Monday said that for the energy transition to be completed, the related framework needed to be attainable.
16 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Ten or so members of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council have already piped up since ECB President Christine Lagarde’s press conference on Thursday; their comments do not, to our mind, change the outlook or contradict Lagarde.
16 September 2024