By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said last week that the ECB would cut rates to 2% during 2025 but that the pace and size of cuts would still be decided meeting by meeting with a data-dependent approach.
20 February 2025
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 18 February with Gediminas Šimkus, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
20 February 2025
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Market expectations of another three ECB interest rate cuts this year are reasonable, even if high uncertainty makes the precise timing of moves post-March an open question, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus.
20 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Here are some aspects of the interview of European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel with the FT, published Wednesday, that we regard as particularly significant:
19 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that the ECB was approaching the moment at which interest rate cuts might stop.
19 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday that the biggest downside risk to inflation stemmed from the weak economy and argued that energy was a new threat on the upside.
19 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Tuesday indicated concern about downward pressure on inflation coming from economic weakness and the potential re-routing to Europe of inexpensive Chinese goods hit by US tariffs.
18 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Tuesday that the ECB should make sure that its interest rate decisions compensate for the tightening effect produced by shrinking the central bank balance sheet.
18 February 2025
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The shrinking of the European Central Bank’s balance sheet at the same time as interest rates are being progressively lowered is not seen by the ECB Governing Council as posing any problem or being contradictory, according to a number of insiders who spoke to Econostream recently.
18 February 2025
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – There is a real chance that euro area inflation will fall below the European Central Bank’s price stability target of 2%, but this would justify less monetary policy easing, not more, according to Council member Robert Holzmann on Monday.
17 February 2025
- Nagel: Depreciation of euro could strengthen price competitiveness
- Nagel: Positive effects of weak euro not enough to compensate negative impact
- Nagel: ‘Good chance’ of reaching 2% inflation ‘soon’
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Saturday that the main risk for inflation in the medium term was undershooting the 2% target.
15 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Friday that the price to be paid for implementing protectionist policies could be very high if these are poorly managed.
14 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – GLASGOW, Scotland (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that climate change could have a very negative inflation effect.
13 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – GLASGOW, Scotland (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that having a solid banking system was paramount in order to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality.
13 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Thursday that the impact of movements in the exchange rate on monetary policy could have increased from levels of the last few decades.
13 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With a March rate cut poised to bring the European Central Bank to within just one more cut of the range it defines as neutral, the ECB may three weeks from today also find the time right to revisit its language.
13 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – With the trauma of the last energy crisis still fresh, the latest price spike for such commodities has European Central Bank Governing Council members vigilant but not yet overly concerned about its implications for inflation.
13 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that the ECB should not be overly optimistic about the next interest rate decision.
12 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that gradualism in setting monetary policy was increasingly called for as the ECB’s easing cycle neared the neutral rate.
12 February 2025