By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Monday said that uncertainty had increased and that the application of tariffs by the US to European goods threatened to reduce growth here.
23 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday that the ECB is getting near to defeating inflation but that caution must still reign due to the evolution of services inflation.
23 December 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Monday said that cutting interest rates as a form of ‘insurance’ could backfire and suggested that rates would not go as low as 1.75%.
23 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Friday that a trade war would have a very bad effect especially on economic growth but on inflation as well.
20 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Croatia could consider issuing long bond tenors if it were to extend its average maturity profile, according to Hrvoje Radovanic, director of the Croatian Public Debt Management Directorate.
20 December 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Friday said the ECB would react if the euro area economy weakened further.
20 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 16 December 2024 with Antonio Cordero, Director General of Financing of Spanish debt issuer Instituto de Crédito Oficial:
20 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Spanish debt issuer Instituto de Crédito Oficial could issue around €6 billion in 2025 and might do issuances in foreign currency in a public format, namely via syndication, according to Antonio Cordero, Director General of Financing of the ICO.
20 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Friday that the inflation beast had now been tamed but suggested that there was still more to be done.
20 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Thursday that although the ECB had agreed to proceed gradually, policymakers should not fear larger cuts if they were necessary.
19 December 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks’ chances of remaining head of Latvia’s central bank took another turn late Wednesday, even as the question of who will lead Latvijas Banka continues to elude resolution.
19 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 12 December 2024 with Saskia Van Dun, Agent of the Dutch State Treasury Agency:
19 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The Netherlands will deliver a more flexible funding program for 2025 but should stick to the currently expected €40 billion capital market issuance, according to Dutch State Treasury Agent Saskia van Dun.
19 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that a trade war between Europe and the US could impact on the euro and even send it back to parity with the US dollar.
19 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday that France should lower its deficit and proposed that this be done via tax increases.
19 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will publish a new set of wage tracker indicators at 10:00 CET on Wednesdays the week after each monetary policy meeting of the Governing Council, the ECB said on Wednesday.
18 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane suggested on Wednesday that the ECB did not go for a 50bp cut in December because the signal it would have sent with a large cut about no longer being restrictive it instead sent via the language.
18 December 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Wednesday said that euro area disinflation was proceeding on track and that domestic price pressures would lessen, so that the ECB should 'maintain agility' with respect to monetary policy.
18 December 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Tuesday said that further ECB interest rate cuts would depend on the data available at each monetary policy meeting.
17 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Almost three months after his appointment as governor of Banco de España, José Luis Escrivá has reinforced the initial perception that he may not become a card-carrying member of the camp of doves on the European Central Bank Governing Council.
17 December 2024