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ECB’s Panetta: ECB to React to Any Significant Financial Tightening

ECB’s Panetta: ECB to React to Any Significant Financial Tightening

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – Any significant tightening of financial conditions will elicit a policy reaction from the European Central Bank until the fallout from the pandemic has been overcome, ECB Executive Board member Fabio Panetta said Wednesday.

1 July 2020
ECB’s Mersch: If Financial Tensions Ease, No Need to Exhaust PEPP

ECB’s Mersch: If Financial Tensions Ease, No Need to Exhaust PEPP

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – Were financial market tensions to dissipate sufficiently, the European Central Bank would not need to deploy the full scope of its pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP), ECB Executive Board member Yves Mersch said Thursday.

25 June 2020
ECB Weekly Financial Statement - 23rd June 2020

ECB Weekly Financial Statement - 23rd June 2020

23rd June 2020 The ECB Weekly Financial Statement released today shows that the ECB received redemptions for the PEPP programme for the 3rd week running.  The amounts are still low (just €0.6bn).  The PSPP had larger redemptions at €6.3bn, meaning that...

23 June 2020
ECB’s Panetta: Need Clearer Picture to Use More of Our Firepower

ECB’s Panetta: Need Clearer Picture to Use More of Our Firepower

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank did not have a sufficiently clear picture ahead to deploy more of its firepower than it did at the June 4 meeting of the Governing Council, ECB Executive Board member Fabio Panetta said on Tuesday.

16 June 2020