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ECB Insight: While Ultimately Unlikely to Give Fragmentation a Pass, Insiders Hate to Even Think About TPI and France

ECB Insight: While Ultimately Unlikely to Give Fragmentation a Pass, Insiders Hate to Even Think About TPI and France

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank insiders show great reluctance even to consider a priori the use of the transmission protection instrument (TPI) for the benefit of France, but seem disinclined to tolerate fragmentation, were it to really come to it, based on the views of various Eurosystem insiders who spoke to Econostream recently on the subject.

5 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Nagel: Privacy Is Key to Digital Euro's Success

ECB’s Nagel: Privacy Is Key to Digital Euro's Success

By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Ensuring the protection of privacy is crucial for the success of the digital euro, European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Friday.

5 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Lagarde: Need to Ensure Disinflation; Focus on Services Data

ECB’s Lagarde: Need to Ensure Disinflation; Focus on Services Data

By Isabel Teles – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that the ECB needed to ensure the continuation of the disinflation process and that this required information related to services prices in particular.

4 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Knot: There Are Rollover Risks Still in the Pipeline

ECB’s Knot: There Are Rollover Risks Still in the Pipeline

By Isabel Teles – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Wednesday said that the discussion of fiscal policy and sovereign debt was back on the radar and that rollover risk could still materialise.

3 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Stournaras: Two Additional Rate Cuts Reasonable This Year

ECB’s Stournaras: Two Additional Rate Cuts Reasonable This Year

By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Two more rate cuts are possible this year, given that the euro area would remain in restrictive territory after that amount of policy easing, European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Wednesday.

3 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Centeno: ‘I Expect a Few More Rate Cuts This Year’

ECB’s Centeno: ‘I Expect a Few More Rate Cuts This Year’

By Isabel Teles – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Tuesday said that the ECB would continue to follow its meeting-by-meeting approach and that if the data were favourable, there would be more interest rate cuts this year.

2 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Vasle: Future Rate Cuts Dependent on Incoming Data

ECB’s Vasle: Future Rate Cuts Dependent on Incoming Data

By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Tuesday said that interest rates could be reduced further this year if everything evolved as expected.

2 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Lane: No Urgency to Cut Rates, Can Take Time to Confirm Disinflation

ECB’s Lane: No Urgency to Cut Rates, Can Take Time to Confirm Disinflation

By Isabel Teles – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Tuesday echoed the words of ECB President Christine Lagarde the previous evening, namely that the ECB was in no hurry to cut interest rates further and could wait for more data.  

2 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Makhlouf: Comfortable With One More Rate Cut in 2024; Two Is Too Many

ECB’s Makhlouf: Comfortable With One More Rate Cut in 2024; Two Is Too Many

By Isabel Teles – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Tuesday said that he agreed with the pricing of one more interest rate cut this year, but that from today’s perspective, two cuts would be too many, even if not excluded.

2 July 2024 Central Bank News