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Commerzbank: ECB’s Kazāks and Šimkus Surest Predictors of Rate Moves

Commerzbank: ECB’s Kazāks and Šimkus Surest Predictors of Rate Moves

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Germany’s Commerzbank on Thursday published an AI-supported analysis of 17 European Central Bank Governing Council members that found Mārtiņš Kazāks and Gediminas Šimkus to be the members who most reliably signal the evolution of euro area monetary policy.

2 October 2025
ECB’s Lagarde: Limited Redirection of Chinese Goods to Europe Seen So Far

ECB’s Lagarde: Limited Redirection of Chinese Goods to Europe Seen So Far

By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday that the ECB had so far observed little evidence of Chinese goods being redirected in large quantities to Europe, though she stressed that the situation would be monitored closely.

30 September 2025
ECB’s Stournaras: Digital Euro Aims to Strengthen Sovereignty and Resilience

ECB’s Stournaras: Digital Euro Aims to Strengthen Sovereignty and Resilience

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Monday said that the digital euro was designed to bolster monetary sovereignty, ensure universal access to safe digital money and enhance the resilience of the European payments system.

29 September 2025
ECB’s Cipollone: Digital Euro Will Safeguard Europe’s Autonomy, Resilience

ECB’s Cipollone: Digital Euro Will Safeguard Europe’s Autonomy, Resilience

By David Barwick – TALLINN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Monday said that the digital euro would be a key tool to preserve Europeans’ freedom of choice, safeguard the bloc’s autonomy and strengthen its resilience in the face of global uncertainty.

29 September 2025
ECB’s Makhlouf: “We Are Near the Bottom”

ECB’s Makhlouf: “We Are Near the Bottom”

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Monday said that the ECB was close to being done cutting interest rates.

29 September 2025
ECB’s Stournaras: Euro Area Resilient, Inflation Near 2% but Risks Persist

ECB’s Stournaras: Euro Area Resilient, Inflation Near 2% but Risks Persist

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday said the euro area economy had shown “remarkable resilience” and that inflation was set to ease close to the ECB’s target, while warning that trade tensions and geopolitics were keeping risks tilted to the downside.

26 September 2025