By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos on Friday rejected speculation as to when the ECB might start loosening monetary policy.
27 October 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday said that inflation was clearly headed downward, but that wages and geopolitical developments remained key risks that could hinder the slowdown of prices.
27 October 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Friday said that upside inflation risks were still significant.
27 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said that the ECB’s tight monetary policy was having a positive effect on inflation.
27 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – ATHENS (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that the time had not come to start considering rate cuts.
26 October 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – One might wonder what the European Central Bank Governing Council discussed at its latest monetary policy meeting, given the absence of any real decision and the evident reluctance of authorities to broach new topics for which this might have been a sensible occasion.
26 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – ATHENS (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council on Thursday decided to keep its three key interest rates unchanged, as widely expected.
26 October 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 14 September, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 11 September .
25 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – ATHENS (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday, one day ahead of the ECB's Governing Council meeting, said that there was still work to be done to bring inflation back to target.
25 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – ATHENS (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday said that Greece could be an example to Europe in overcoming challenges.
25 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said that gender diversity was beneficial to the economy.
24 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s latest Bank Lending Survey (BLS), released on Tuesday, showed that euro area banks expect further net tightening for loans to companies, consumers and households, with minimum changes to housing loans standards.
24 October 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – To describe the outcome of this week’s European Central Bank Governing Council meeting as a pause might inadequately capture the firmness with which policymakers are actually on hold at the moment, meaning that a rate move is virtually excluded.
24 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German core inflation should remain a bit over 4%, despite the weaking of the general inflation rate, the German Bundesbank said on Monday in its latest monthly report.
23 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ignazio Visco on Friday said that the risk of banking crises was not and could not be completely ruled out.
20 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ignazio Visco on Thursday said that climate change could affect the mandate of central banks.
19 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank Governing Council on Wednesday said it had decided to move on to the preparation phase of the Digital Euro Project as of November 1st.
18 October 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 14 September, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 11 September .
18 October 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With the European Central Bank Governing Council so clearly intending to abstain from a rate hike at its monetary policy meeting in Athens next week, one might wonder how authorities will fill the void left by this non-decision, given also the absence of updated macroeconomic projections to chew over.
18 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Tuesday said that macroprudential policy faced evolving challenges.
17 October 2023