By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Monday that the ECB’s decisions in April and beyond would depend on new forecasts and new data on services inflation and wage growth.
3 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Sunday that the ECB wouldn’t need to be restrictive once inflation reached its 2% target.
2 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that the ECB’s monetary policy was clearly going from being restrictive to neutrality.
31 January 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Thursday said that disinflation in the euro area had been fairly unproblematic in large part due to the ECB’s credibility.
31 January 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Friday reiterated his view that policymakers needed to move cautiously, even as he acknowledged increased confidence in the restoration of price stability.
31 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller said on Friday that the ECB was approaching the moment at which rates could no longer be considered high.
31 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 21 January 2025 with Karol Czarnecki, Director of the Public Debt Department at the Polish Ministry of Finance.:
31 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Poland will issue a new green bond in 2025 and is looking into the euro market for that purpose, according to Karol Czarnecki, director of the Public Debt Department at the Polish Ministry of Finance.
31 January 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Bank of Slovenia Deputy Governor Primož Dolenc on Friday said that the European Central Bank’s Governing Council would adjust its monetary policy stance according to incoming data.
31 January 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The press conference following Thursday’s monetary policy meeting of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council was fully in line with expectations, so with nothing to indicate that the ECB is anything but clearly on track for another 25bp cut in March.
30 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that the Governing Council had not discussed what the neutral rate was as it was still early for this.
30 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - The European Central Bank’s Governing Council decided on Thursday to cut its three key interest rates by 25bp, as widely expected by markets and analysts.
30 January 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It makes no sense to resent a meeting of the European Central Bank Governing Council, but if it did, then one might feel some animus precisely towards this week’s monetary policy gathering.
28 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland came to a close at the end of last week, but the convenient timing of the event just before the European Central Bank’s quiet period ensured a flow of comments from Governing Council members worth looking back at.
28 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday that central bank independence was under threat.
27 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Monday that the fiscal authorities should not adopt policies inconsistent with high interest rates as this might spur inflation.
27 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on January 21 with Dorothée Rouzet, Chief Economist of the French Treasury.
27 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The French economy should not suffer recession, with annual growth likely to hover around 1%, according to French Treasury Chief Economist Dorothée Rouzet.
27 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Friday that the ECB had faith in the disinflation process.
24 January 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that the ECB’s central scenario consisted of gradual moves approaching neutral over the next six months.
23 January 2025