By David Barwick – NEW YORK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s speech on Friday at the 2026 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum was unmistakably hawkish, but not in the crude way markets might have expected after a week of surging energy prices and frantic rates repricing.
6 March 2026
– European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday said that the shock from the escalation of the Middle...
– European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday said euro area monetary policy remained “in...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen said on Friday that the ECB could tolerate a modest overshoot...
– Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 5 March 2026 with Olli Rehn, Governor of the...
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 5 March 2026 with Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
6 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – The Iran conflict and its economic consequences are harming global growth, and a prolonged blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could significantly impact inflation and growth, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn.
6 March 2026
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on February 26 said that the emergence of an inflation risk could result in a very changed inflation situation in Europe that could require a modification of ECB monetary policy.
5 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 20 February 2026 with Marjan Divjak, Director General of the Treasury Directorate of Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance:
23 February 2026
By David Barwick – NEW YORK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s speech on Friday at the 2026 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum was unmistakably hawkish, but not in the crude way markets might have expected after a week of surging energy prices and frantic rates repricing.
6 March 2026
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – From today’s still-early perspective, the conflict in the Middle East looks much more likely to stiffen the European Central Bank’s caution at its March meeting than to trigger any immediate policy adjustment.
4 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - A softer US dollar has done little to disrupt sovereign funding strategies, with debt management offices signaling that their USD issuance plans remain firmly in place despite the currency’s recent depreciation.
26 February 2026
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Wednesday’s report from Spanish news outlet Vozpópuli on former European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos is more convincing than the outlet’s attempt a month ago to portray the ECB as already opening the door to him. Even so, the new piece still looks less like confirmation of a Spanish decision than an effort to shape the conversation around one.
26 February 2026
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