By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Friday said that interest rate expectations incorporated in the ECB’s projections could still be realised if developments supported this.
7 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday declined to endorse the ECB's stock sentence about the direction of rates being clear and suggested that data-dependency was more relevant than ever.
6 March 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – If the natural baseline for assessing European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s performance at Thursday’s press conference as hawkish or dovish is her communication on other recent such occasions, then we must conclude that she was hawkish today.
6 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that the ECB’s latest upward revision of its 2025 inflation projection should be regarded as transitory.
6 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank Governing Council on Thursday decided to cut its key interest rates by 25bp each, as widely expected by markets and analysts.
6 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel in his capacity as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank has endorsed a proposal to increase the German government’s borrowing limit to a maximum of 1.4% of GDP from the current 0.35% level, according to a Bundesbank announcement on Tuesday.
4 March 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – That the European Central Bank’s Governing Council will cut by 25bp on Thursday is virtually certain; we suppose the cut will be backed unanimously, but if not, then Austrian National Bank Governor Robert Holzmann should be the whole ‘opposition’.
4 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is a collection of views expressed by ECB Governing Council members on various topics of high relevance related to this week’s meeting and the further evolution of monetary policy.
3 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 27 February 2025 with Marjan Divjak, Director General of the Treasury Directorate of Slovenia's Ministry of Finance:
28 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Slovenia might tap the Panda bond market, according to Marjan Divjak, Director General of the Treasury Directorate of Slovenia's Ministry of Finance.
28 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday said that the ECB would hit the terminal rate of 2% by 4Q of this year.
25 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Tuesday that the ECB’s recent research showed r* had moved up in the last few decades, which she said could suggest where policy should go.
25 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Tuesday questioned whether ECB monetary policy was still in restrictive territory and urged that any rate steps be taken with care.
25 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that the ECB had room to keep cutting interest rates, but urged his colleagues at the ECB to refrain from openly guessing about a potential terminal rate.
25 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that he could not currently confirm that interest rates were no longer restrictive.
25 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 19 February 2025 with Stelios Leonidou, Senior Economic Officer at the Cypriot Public Debt Management Office.
24 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The Public Debt Management Office of Cyprus is assessing whether it should reopen the 2034 bond anytime soon, according to Senior Economic Officer Stelios Leonidou.
24 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is at risk of blindly going too far in easing its monetary policy, according to Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch.
24 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Sunday that the ECB should proceed with caution, but he refused to endorse calls to start pausing interest rate cuts.
23 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Saturday that the neutral rate was not a destination and that the ECB should not decide now what it should do after the summer.
22 February 2025