By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday reiterated her warning that if unchecked, increasing market rates could cause an unwanted tightening of financing conditions.
21 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Housing prices in the euro area grew at the fastest pace in 13 years during 2020, the European Central Bank said on Monday.
21 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The service sector is expected to drive a strong economic upturn in the current quarter in Germany despite supply constraints, the German Bundesbank said on Monday in its latest monthly bulletin.
21 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Saturday said that monetary policy must act with a steady hand and communicate clearly.
19 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Risks are more balanced, but the outlook remains uncertain and this will make inflation forecasting difficult, European Central Bank Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said Thursday.
17 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – This is a quick take on comments made Thursday by European Central Bank Governing Council member Jens Weidmann, President of the German Bundesbank, in German business daily Handelsblatt:
17 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Thursday said monetary policy needed to stay the course for now and safeguard the economic recovery.
17 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Thursday argued again that the euro area lagged far behind the United States in policy-relevant respects and urged sustained fiscal support.
17 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Thursday played down the significance for the ECB of Wednesday’s unexpectedly hawkish policy guidance from the US Federal Reserve.
17 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Thursday indicated that the September Governing Council meeting might be too soon for the ECB to abandon its current ‘steady hand’ and start beating a retreat from its ultra-accommodative policy stance.
17 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is very interested in what the accumulation of savings during the pandemic means for economies as they reopen, Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Wednesday.
16 June 2021
This is a quick take on comments made Monday by European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann, Governor of the Austrian National Bank.
14 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Monday suggested that the pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) would end as scheduled next March and that the decision about the transition away from the PEPP would be made in the fall.
14 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s comments to Politico published Monday represented a further tentative step in the direction of conceding the inevitable: an economic recovery that would make extraordinary policy support unnecessary and hence require discussion about withdrawing related measures.
14 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday gave an even more upbeat assessment of euro area economic prospects than at Thursday’s press conference, predicting a return to pre-Covid levels of output already in the first quarter of next year.
14 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German Bundesbank Board member Joachim Wuermeling on Monday defended negative interest rates as appropriate in light of inflation prospects.
14 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Spanish economy will expand by 6.2% this year and 5.8% next before slowing to 1.8% in 2023, according to the latest projections of Banco de España, released Monday.
14 June 2021
This is a quick take on comments made Monday by European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of Banque de France, in French daily Le Figaro.
14 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said Friday that the ECB had to keep monetary policy accommodative and that the ECB could be ‘at least as patient’ as the US Federal Reserve in setting policy.
11 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Friday declined to say whether he had supported the ECB’s decision yesterday to continue conducting asset purchases under the pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) at the higher pace of the second quarter.
11 June 2021