By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said on Wednesday that monetary policy would remain ‘highly restrictive’ even if the ECB cuts interest rates by 25bp twice before year's end.
9 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday said that despite the expected rebound of euro area inflation this quarter, inflation was essentially on the decline.
8 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – As support mounts for an interest rate cut at the European Central Bank’s Governing Council meeting next week, policymakers appear oddly unfazed by the dramatic impact on oil prices of rising tensions in the Middle East.
8 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle said on Tuesday that a potential rate cut by the ECB this month would not imply another such move in December.
8 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Monday expressed a potential willingness to cut interest rates again at the ECB's October meeting.
8 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Tuesday that the ECB would have an ‘open mind’ in the October meeting even as downside risks to growth might already be taking materialising.
8 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Monday that Europe needed to take more steps towards a capital markets union, which he characterised as essential.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday confirmed that the Governing Council was likely to cut interest rates at its next monetary policy meeting.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday that the latest economic data suggested growth could be slower than expected, while inflation was falling faster than projected.
7 October 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 02 October with and reviewed on 06 October by Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
7 October 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will probably continue to take similarly-sized rate steps as long as the economic outlook does not worsen even further, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Wednesday.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday that the potential of tokenisation technologies should not be ignored by public authorities, lest the risk of fragmentation emerge.
7 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Hours after our prediction one week ago that the European Central Bank’s Governing Council would cut interest rates in October, ECB President Christine Lagarde dropped what we and others considered a corroboratory hint. For those not fond of her strategic ambiguity, Council member François Villeroy de Galhau has now provided greater clarity.
7 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday confirmed that the Governing Council was likely to cut interest rates at its next monetary policy meeting
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Friday that the ECB should consider holding a larger share of EU supranational bonds.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Friday that inflation had surprised positively lately while growth was still subject to downside risks.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Friday declared victory over inflation and pointed to the recent decrease in services inflation.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Wednesday that the Eurozone’s sluggish economy needed another ECB rate cut to avoid undershooting inflation.
2 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that the ECB must not ignore the headwinds to growth and that a return of inflation to the 2% target was now more probable.
2 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on September 26 with Carla Díaz Álvarez de Toledo, director general of the Spanish Treasury.
2 October 2024