By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Of the various members of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council to have spoken out over the last few days, it may be that Central Bank of Cyprus Governor Constantinos Herodotou made the most meaningful contribution to the public discourse about monetary policy normalisation.
11 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s new anti-fragmentation tool might never require actual deployment, ECB Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said on Saturday.
11 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank might have to hike rates by as much as 0.75 basis points if things don’t get better, Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Saturday.
11 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank has to address the danger than elevated inflation rates could lead to a dis-anchoring of expectations, ECB Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said on Friday.
8 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Constantinos Herodotou on Friday said that inflation in excess of 2% was not per se grounds to hike official borrowing costs.
8 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Thursday endorsed a cycle of interest rate hikes but urged that risks associated with policy tightening be addressed.
7 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It is very clear that the European Central Bank has its work cut out for it in attempting to come up with an anti-fragmentation tool, Econostream can only conclude after having recently heard opinions on the subject from three more ECB insiders who all seemed keen that such an instrument be designed and deployed conservatively.
7 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Irish economic growth should hold up relatively well over the medium term, but uncertainty is high and the outlook is subject to risen downside risks, according to the Central Bank of Ireland on Thursday.
7 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday said that the ECB would continue hiking interest rates post-September to reach the neutral level, at which point tightening would cease unless inflation dictated otherwise.
7 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The projection of medium-term price stability rests on the assumption that moderate wage developments and reduced trade margins will prevent a price-wage spiral from emerging, European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Thursday.
7 July 2022
- ECB insider: ‘Hard to imagine a substantial improvement in the inflation outlook’
- ECB insider: ‘I see only upside risks, not downside risks’
- ECB insider: ‘Might be a need for stronger action from the central bank’
- ECB insider: Could be dangerous to do less than what our HICP projections assume
- ECB insider: Stagflation ‘would still require raising interest rates anyway’
ECB’s Nagel: Would Caution Against Using Monetary Policy Instruments to Limit Risk Premia
- Nagel: Virtually impossible to be sure whether widened spread is fundamentally justified
- Nagel: ‘A restrictive monetary policy stance may be necessary’
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Once the European Central Bank has taken official borrowing costs out of negative territory, any further adjustments will hinge on economic and inflation developments, ECB Executive Board member Fabio Panetta said Friday.
1 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on June 28 with Pablo de Ramón-Laca Clausen, General Director of the Tesoro and Financial Policy, Spain’s sovereign debt issuer:
1 July 2022
- Spain DMO head: Tax revenues increasing very significantly, so funding needs declining
- Spain DMO head: Expect our greenium to settle at around three to four basis points
- Spain DMO head: Debt sustainability not currently a problem in any Eurozone country
- Spain DMO head: Spreads ‘have to be justified by fundamentals’
- Spain DMO head: Anti-fragmentation tool will help ECB tighten policy faster, more credibly
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Consistent with her speech the day before, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday took the opportunity of the policy panel discussion at the ECB Forum on Central Banking 2022 to make clear again that the mantra of gradualism to which she had been so attached until recently is in the process of falling out of favour.
29 June 2022
Exclusive: ECB’s Kazāks: Would not exclude that we need to take stronger action in July
- Kazāks: ‘Fair case to discuss whether 25 basis points in July are still appropriate’
- Kazāks: ‘We should always keep the door open to discussion’ and not carve each step in stone
- Kazāks: Observing indications of expectations mounting; this could justify bigger rate steps
- Kazāks: Increased risk of nonlinearities means frontloading rate hikes would be reasonable
- Kazāks: ‘See further increases in our rates in the remaining meetings at the end of the year’
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on June 27 with Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
28 June 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday made clear that the ECB could under circumstances abandon the principle of gradualism that it has been preaching for many months.
28 June 2022