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ECB Tone Meter: Tone Turns More Hawkish Despite Lagarde’s Neutral Remarks
ECB Tone Meter: Tone Turns More Hawkish Despite Lagarde’s Neutral Remarks
19 October 2026 | Central Bank News
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ECB’s Lagarde: Energy Shock Too Large to “Look Through,” Measured Response Appropriate
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Saturday that the energy shock was too large for policymakers to look through, but that tighter financing conditions and limited pass-through into other prices and wages meant a measured monetary policy response remained appropriate.
17 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Rehn: Higher Bond Yields Having Disinflationary Effect on Economy
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Saturday that higher borrowing costs were tightening financial conditions, weighing on economic growth and exerting some disinflationary pressure.
17 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Nagel: Our “Job Is Not Done” Yet, Further Rate Hikes May Be Needed
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Saturday that the ECB had not yet finished tightening monetary policy to combat inflation and might need to raise interest rates further.
17 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Rehn: No Signs of Second-Round Inflation Effects Yet, But “May Creep In Quietly”
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Saturday that higher energy prices had pushed euro area inflation above target, but that there was so far no evidence of second-round effects on wages or other prices, warning nevertheless that such pressures could emerge gradually.
17 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Moulin: No Case for ECB Bond Market Intervention as French Yields Rise
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said Friday the recent repricing of French government debt had not produced the kind of market dysfunction that would justify ECB intervention.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
Knot: Sovereign Debt Risks Require Some Loss of National Sovereignty to Prevent Fragmentation
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Former European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Friday that said that Eurozone countries must accept a certain loss of national sovereignty to ensure the functioning of the monetary union, arguing that the lesson of Mario Draghi’s landmark 2012 intervention remains as relevant today as it was then.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
Transcript: Interview with ECB Governing Council member Wunsch on 15 October 2026
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Following is the transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 15 October 2026 with Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
Exclusive: ECB’s Wunsch: Rise in Long-Term Yields Doesn’t Mean ECB Is Done Hiking
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) - The recent increase in long-term bond yields does not mean the European Central Bank has finished raising interest rates, according to Pierre Wunsch, member of the ECB Governing Council, who argued that further tightening would be “reasonable” given persistent inflation pressures and the resilience of the Eurozone economy.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Rehn: December Data Set Favors “Measured” Approach, No Second-Round Effects Yet
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Friday that the additional information available at the ECB’s December meeting argued for a “measured” approach to monetary policy, with the latest energy shock so far showing no significant signs of spreading more broadly through inflation.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Nagel: Another Rate Hike May Be Needed if Current Conditions Persist
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Friday that another interest rate increase might be needed if the current inflation environment persisted, while stressing that policy should continue to be decided meeting by meeting.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
Knot: ECB Doing “Exactly What They Need to Do,” Supply Shocks Call for Limited Response
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Former European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said Friday that the ECB was pursuing the appropriate monetary policy in the face of the latest supply shock, arguing that policymakers should do what was necessary to contain inflation while avoiding an unnecessarily large hit to growth.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Kazāks: Policy Direction Clear, But No Immediate Need to Rush
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Thursday that inflation pressures were likely to remain dominant in the near term and that the direction of monetary policy was therefore clear, while adding that policymakers were not under immediate pressure to raise rates again.
15 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Dolenc: Current Rate Level Gives Council “Appropriate Flexibility”
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Primož Dolenc said Thursday that the current level of ECB interest rates gave policymakers sufficient flexibility to respond to developments, with future decisions continuing to depend on the inflation outlook, risks and the effects of monetary policy.
15 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Pereira: We May Need to Act More Decisively if Inflation Broadens
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira said on Thursday that inflation in the Eurozone remained largely driven by energy prices, but warned that central banks could be forced to act more decisively if price pressures began spreading more broadly across the economy.
15 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Šimkus: Wider Sovereign Spreads Do Not Necessarily Signal Fragmentation
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said Thursday that higher sovereign yields and wider spreads in the euro area largely reflected differences in countries’ fiscal positions and credit risks and did not necessarily amount to market fragmentation.
15 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Kocher: Higher Long-Term Yields Tighten Financial Conditions, Must Affect Policy
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Thursday that higher long-term bond yields were tightening financial conditions and therefore had to be taken into account in setting monetary policy, while saying there was no current need to discuss deploying other ECB instruments.
15 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Dolenc: May Not Need to Tighten “As Much” if Financial Conditions Tighten
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Primož Dolenc said on Thursday that the ECB may not need to raise interest rates as much as it otherwise would if recent stress in sovereign bond markets leads to tighter financial conditions.
15 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Šimkus: More Evidence Since September Points to Possible Tightening
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said Wednesday that evidence accumulated since the September meeting suggested that some further monetary policy tightening could be needed, while indicating that December offered policymakers a richer information set than October.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB’s Escrivá: Europe Risks Missing Out on Technological Transformation
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Wednesday that Europe was poorly positioned to benefit from the rapid technological transformation of the global economy, citing excessive regulatory complexity, insufficient rewards for talent and fragmented markets.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News