By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – European Central Bank monetary policy was likely around neutral levels, but would have to tighten significantly further into restrictive territory, according to Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Wednesday.
11 January 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank expects to implement further significant monetary policy tightening by hiking at a sustained pace, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
11 January 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must still hike official borrowing costs significantly and into restrictive territory, according to ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Tuesday.
10 January 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday said the terminal rate would ideally be reached by summer and the ECB would remain there as long as necessary.
5 January 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is likely to hike rates by a large amount in both February and March, according to ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Tuesday.
3 January 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that monetary authorities’ job was not yet finished and that further rate hikes were required.
2 January 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Saturday said that wage growth was likely exceeding expectations and that care had to be taken not to let this become a further source of inflation.
31 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday somewhat unenthusiastically recapped recent ECB monetary policy.
30 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Sunday said that tighter monetary policy would lead to clearly lower Portuguese inflation soon.
29 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank has to continue hiking interest rates in order to ensure a return to price stability, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said Tuesday.
27 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Sunday suggested that monetary authorities faced a dilemma in balancing the need to combat inflation with the impact of higher borrowing costs on the economy.
25 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will have to take official borrowing costs into restrictive territory in order to get inflation back to a level consistent with price stability, according to ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Saturday.
24 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank rate hikes of 50bp may be the standard move over the short term, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said Thursday.
22 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Thursday said that he agreed with every ECB rate hike to date in the current hiking cycle and that where the hikes were headed would become clearer once inflation started to subside.
22 December 2022
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20 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European banks should be able to deal with the negative impact of rising interest rates, but must nonetheless take steps to be ready for possible side effects in the longer run, European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said Tuesday.
20 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German core inflation will probably stay high for the time being, the German Bundesbank said on Monday in its latest monthly report.
19 December 2022
By David Barwick – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – The National Bank of Belgium on Monday said that the euro area economy would be in a mild recession at the end of this year and early next year, but that Belgian growth would hold up relatively well and only briefly turn slightly negative, thus avoiding a technical recession.
19 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will have to continue to show resolve for at least the next six months, Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said Monday.
19 December 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday said that the ECB would continue to hike interest rates and that this would involve some difficult months.
19 December 2022