By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is unlikely to cut interest rates by 50bp in December, according to Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch.
11 November 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 1 November 2024 with Anu Sammallahti, director of finance and acting Head of Division at Finland’s State Treasury:
5 November 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Finland expects its debt issuance programme to amount to ‘around €43 billion’ in 2025, according to Anu Sammallahti, director of finance and acting Head of Division at Finland’s State Treasury.
5 November 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 23 October with Mário Centeno, Governor of the Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
29 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must remain open on the size of a potential December cut, which will be driven by the imperative of not undershooting the ECB's inflation target, Governing Council member Mário Centeno said last Wednesday.
29 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – Madrid (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 08 October 2024 with Tammo Diemer, member of the Executive Board of Germany’s Finance Agency:
23 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Germany is highly unlikely to re-enter the inflation-linked bond market after having exited in 2024, according to Tammo Diemer, member of the Executive Board of Germany’s Finance Agency.
23 October 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 02 October with and reviewed on 06 October by Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
7 October 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will probably continue to take similarly-sized rate steps as long as the economic outlook does not worsen even further, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Wednesday.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on September 26 with Carla Díaz Álvarez de Toledo, director general of the Spanish Treasury.
2 October 2024
- Díaz: Latest syndication had highest demand for inflation-linked bond in euro area
- Díaz: Comfortable with portfolio average life
- Díaz: Won’t adjust issuance programme to short-term changes in interest rates
- Díaz: We try to be very predictable; issuance strategy not opportunistic,
- Díaz: Bond buybacks not part of our regular toolkit
By Marta Vilar – VIENNA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on September 19 with Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury.
26 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – VIENNA (Econostream) – Demand for ultra-long bonds will recover and Austria will then assess the possibility of tapping the market for this ‘opportunistic’ part of the curve, according to Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury.
26 September 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – VILNIUS (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 2 September with Gediminas Šimkus, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
3 September 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – VILNIUS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Monday delivered a clear endorsement of a rate cut in September but deemed further easing as soon as October, as well as a step of more than 25bp, ‘quite unlikely’.
3 September 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – ALPBACH, Austria (Econostream) – By the time of the upcoming monetary policy meeting of the European Central Bank Governing Council there would ideally be more positive data available for the ECB’s decision-making, according to Council member Robert Holzmann on Wednesday.
29 August 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – In his latest intervention, European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks suggested that a return to the ECB’s 2% price stability target next year was a precondition for a September rate cut. Or did he?
23 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 3 July 2024 with Mário Centeno, Governor of Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
9 July 2024
By Isabel Teles – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – The decline of euro area producer prices since the end of 2022, confirmed by weaker-than-expected May data released last week, is grounds for the ECB to ask itself whether it is easing monetary policy rapidly enough to avoid undershooting inflation, according to ECB Governing Council member Mário Centeno.
9 July 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank insiders show great reluctance even to consider a priori the use of the transmission protection instrument (TPI) for the benefit of France, but seem disinclined to tolerate fragmentation, were it to really come to it, based on the views of various Eurosystem insiders who spoke to Econostream recently on the subject.
5 July 2024