By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Thursday that the ECB will have some data to review ahead of the April Governing Council meeting, but that it will be too early for the data to be “decisive.”
16 April 2026
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that market expectations of two rate...
– European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Thursday portrayed the euro area as having largely restored...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Thursday said the ECB would need to tighten monetary policy “decisively...
– With April increasingly looking like a meeting the European Central Bank’s Governing Council is keeping alive out of...
By Marta Vilar and David Barwick – TALLINN (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 26 March 2026 with Madis Müller, Governor of Eesti Pank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
27 March 2026
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – TALLINN (Econostream) – The European Central Bank might not need to wait until broad-based second-round effects are “fully visible” before considering a rate increase, according to ECB Governing Council member Madis Müller.
27 March 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
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Thursday that the ECB will have some data to review ahead of the April Governing Council meeting, but that it will be too early for the data to be “decisive.”
16 April 2026
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that market expectations of two rate hikes in 2026 were “reasonable,” adding that a 25bp move would largely serve as a signaling step.
16 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Thursday portrayed the euro area as having largely restored macroeconomic and financial stability, while arguing that the bloc’s central economic challenge had shifted to reviving growth.
16 April 2026
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Thursday said the ECB would need to tighten monetary policy “decisively and forcefully” if the war in Iran became protracted, generated second-round effects on prices and wages and threatened to disanchor inflation expectations.
16 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
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 13 March 2026 with Adrián Martínez, Vice Director of the Swiss Federal Finance Administration.
18 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – A new Swiss confederation bond is expected later in 2026 and could be issued around the 2041 maturity, which represents the next gap in Switzerland’s bond profile, according to Adrián Martínez, Vice Director of the Swiss Federal Finance Administration (FFA).
18 March 2026
As of 16 April 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter continued to move slightly higher this week for both the Governing Council and the Executive Board, even in the wake of the Middle East ceasefire.
10 April 2026
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – With April increasingly looking like a meeting the European Central Bank’s Governing Council is keeping alive out of convention rather than conviction, June now risks being treated as the move that inevitably follows. That may be too simplistic.
16 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – We argued on March 27 that European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel had given the Governing Council “room to wait.” On April 1 we said April 30 still looked live, but that it sounded “less and less like the ECB is trying to lead markets there,” a point we sharpened further on April 7 and April 8 . President Christine Lagarde’s Bloomberg TV interview on Tuesday strongly reinforces that line.
14 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Our Insights on April 7 , April 1 and March 27 argued that recent European Central Bank Governing Council communication had increasingly come to sound like that of a body dutifully keeping April 30 live while sounding reluctant to move then. Bank of Slovenia Governor Primož Dolenc’s podcast comments on Wednesday reinforce that impression — despite almost certainly having been recorded before the overnight ceasefire between the United States and Iran.
8 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It’s easy to picture some of those listening to European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau’s speech last Thursday doing a double-take on hearing him say that the next change in ECB interest rates was probably destined to be a hike.
7 April 2026