By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Constantinos Herodotou on Thursday said that prospects for the economy of Cyprus were good and that high inflation would continue to subside as ECB monetary policy unfolded its impact.
31 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday said that despite while the materialisation of downside economic risks was leading to visibly weaker activity, the downward impact from this on inflation was not showing up as readily.
31 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Fabio Panetta on Wednesday called for the establishment of a permanent safe asset at the level of Europe as an essential part of creating a fully-fledged capital markets union.
30 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos on Wednesday said that the ECB was confident that inflation expectations were anchored.
30 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Price stability is monetary policy’s best contribution to ensuring that economic growth and employment stand in the way of rising inequality due to inflation, European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
30 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It is still unclear which of the choices facing the European Central Bank at its upcoming monetary policy meeting is to be preferred, ECB Governing Council member Tuomas Välimäki said on Tuesday.
29 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 27 July, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 24 July .
29 August 2023
By David Barwick – ALPBACH, Austria (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that monetary authorities would await all incoming data before reaching a monetary policy decision next month.
28 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – After ascertaining on 01 August that the option of a pause at the 14 September meeting of the European Central Bank Governing Council had taken an early lead versus the lone alternative of yet another hike, we observe today that little has changed about this, which is not surprising, given that it also remains the case that monetary policy is still subject to the summer lull, leaving public pronouncements rare.
25 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The next spot readings of euro area inflation would indicate whether underlying inflation was really weakening and whether monetary policy was restrictive enough, European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said Friday.
25 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It is too easy - and probably wrong - to think that European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel could only have been calling for another hike of interest rates in the interview published on Friday.
25 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said that it was too soon to consider a pause in monetary policy tightening and that the Council's September decision would also have to depend on information yet to come.
25 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday repeated that interest rates in the euro area would have to remain at their peak for long enough to restore price stability.
25 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 27 July, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 24 July .
24 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Thursday urged caution in setting monetary policy, as downside risks to the economic outlook had materialised.
24 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 27 July, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 24 July .
14 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The option of a pause at the 14 September meeting of the European Central Bank Governing Council has hardly clinched the outcome, but the ECB’s latest consumer expectations survey, released Tuesday, is more wind in the sails of the Council doves.
8 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s consumer expectations survey, released Tuesday, showed expectations in June of inflation in one year as well as three years ahead down versus May.
8 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 27 July, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 24 July .
4 August 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Friday said that inflation in the euro area would decline substantially in the latter part of 2023.
4 August 2023