By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot’s comments on Friday suggest that he may be backing down from his earlier enthusiasm for the possibility of a renewed 75bp rate hike in December.
21 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – As the public discussion of the European Central Bank’s approach to quantitative tightening heats up, one can venture some guesses about what will materialise, based on Governing Council members’ contributions to that discussion.
21 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – To the reasonably complete compendium published here last Thursday of recent public comments by European Central Bank Governing Council members touching on the subject of quantitative tightening, we have added remarks made on Friday.
21 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Monday said that the ECB had to keep normalising monetary policy and that interest rates would be hiked to the point of being restrictive.
21 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Friday said that the terminal rate of the current ECB hiking cycle could not be known under the current circumstances, but that monetary authorities still had much to do.
18 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Friday said that ECB monetary policy had to become restrictive in order to slow demand and called for quantitative tightening to start early but be cautious.
18 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The speech made Friday afternoon by European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel ultimately offered little to guide ECB watchers.
18 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday called for additional decisive monetary policy action, saying that initial unclear indications of lower price pressures shouldn’t lull the ECB into relaxing.
18 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Comments made by European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday effectively excluded a full-throated initial approach to unwinding the ECB’s balance sheet.
18 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday indicated that normalisation of the ECB’s balance sheet would take place cautiously and gradually, and would be subordinate to interest rates in determining the stance of monetary policy.
18 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will have failed in a big way if consumers saw inflation staying as elevated as it is now, ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane said Thursday.
17 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday noted the recent failure of the dollar to continue strengthening.
17 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – We have assembled below a reasonably complete compendium of all recent public comments by European Central Bank Governing Council members touching on the subject of quantitative tightening, favouring direct quotes where possible.
17 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It is critical that the European Central Bank keep inflation expectations under control, ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Thursday.
17 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The financial stability situation of the euro area has worsened again, the European Central Bank said on Wednesday.
16 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Wednesday repeated his assertion that the ECB could potentially slow the pace of policy tightening after reaching a normalisation range in December.
16 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday said that slower economic growth by itself would not be sufficient to restore euro area price stability.
16 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should start running off the bonds acquired under QE only after markets have absorbed significant TLTRO repayments, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
16 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank still needs to hike rates, but there are reasons to think that it can do so at a slower pace than to date, ECB Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said Wednesday.
16 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Wednesday repeated the warning that the economic cost of monetary policy inaction in the face of high inflation would be greater than the cost associated with higher interest rates.
16 November 2022