By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that the ECB should only significantly increase its balance sheet under exceptional circumstances.
1 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday that survey data provided important insights for the ECB, citing the inflation shock beginning in 2022 as an example.
1 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that the ECB’s confidence about restoring price stability had strengthened lately and that this would factor into the Governing Council's rate decision in October.
30 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Last Thursday we outlined a path for the European Central Bank’s Governing Council to cut interest rates in October rather than wait until December. Still, an October cut was, we wrote, ‘no given yet, though the odds have clearly risen.’
30 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Friday that the euro area might be very close to the end of high inflation.
27 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday spoke in favour of more digitalisation while also urging that the associated risks be kept in mind.
27 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Friday that Europe had to watch that foreign central bank digital currencies did not weaken the international importance of the euro.
27 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council Olli Rehn said on Friday that disinflation was on track in the EU but that the recovery was frail.
27 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday said that macroprudential frameworks could be applied to non-banks and have a positive impact both on these and on banks.
26 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Thursday said that the euro area recovery had been postponed and that the ECB wanted to avoid undershooting its inflation target.
26 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that emerging technologies could be a tool for macroprudential policy to anticipate and mitigate risks to the financial system.
26 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Thursday said that the ECB Supervisory Board would monitor banks' approach to risk-taking and be ready to act if they failed to observe the guidelines.
26 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – We have tended to believe, with a certain conviction, that the European Central Bank’s Governing Council would stick for the time being to a quarterly pace of easing, so that the next rate cut would be in December rather than October.
26 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – VIENNA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on September 19 with Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury.
26 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – VIENNA (Econostream) – Demand for ultra-long bonds will recover and Austria will then assess the possibility of tapping the market for this ‘opportunistic’ part of the curve, according to Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury.
26 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Wednesday that challenges like multilateralism and geopolitical fragmentation called for international cooperation.
25 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Wednesday said that France's fiscal situation was a problem that needed to be addressed.
25 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The support for wage growth from wage drift is weakening, a factor behind the the recent moderation in euro area wage growth indicators, according to a section of the Economic Bulletin prereleased by the European Central Bank on Wednesday.
25 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Tuesday that the ECB would likely cut rates in the first half of 2025 below 3%.
25 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday said that the transitory nature of some of the reasons for Germany's weak growth meant that the economy would slowly recover.
24 September 2024