By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Wednesday said that inflation had surprised positively and could turn out to be lower than anticipated.
31 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Tuesday said that the next steps regarding interest rates should be taken with an unprejudiced and data-dependent approach.
30 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Tuesday said that climate change was being taken into consideration in the updating of macroeconomic projections and in monetary policy decisions.
30 January 2024
By David Barwick – ZAGREB (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should loosen monetary policy in 25bp moves when the time comes, but the exact month in which easing begins matters little from an economic standpoint, ECB Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said Tuesday.
30 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday reaffirmed the importance of wage data to the ECB’s monetary policy decisions.
30 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday said that inflation in the euro area has been controlled.
30 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday said that the disinflationary process had been positive and would continue.
29 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Monday said that the reduction of interest rates should start earlier and in a gradual way.
29 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday said that inflation had been on a positive path and that monetary policy would reflect this in due time.
29 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Monday said that the precise timing of the ECB’s first rate cut was not of primary importance but that June was more probable than April.
29 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 25 January, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 19 January .
29 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board members Piero Cipollone, Philip Lane and Isabel Schnabel on Monday said that that the ECB’s new framework for the provision of euro liquidity would contribute to monetary policy transmission and to resilience in the euro area.
29 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Sunday said that the ECB’s interest rates would be reduced in 2024 and that no date was excluded once there was sufficient progress towards the inflation target.
28 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Sunday said that the key development necessary for an interest rate cut was slower wage growth.
28 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Saturday said that monetary policy was effective and inflation was on positive trajectory towards the ECB’s 2% target.
27 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras over the weekend said that monetary policy easing could start after the second quarter, if positive inflation developments continue.
27 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Germany's economy was slightly weaker than expected in December and would likely languish during the first quarter of 2024, the German Bundesbank said on Friday in its latest monthly report.
26 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Friday said that Europe could avoid shocks that could fragment the economy with an ‘effective policy response’.
26 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Friday said that the ECB’s next steps would depend on incoming information, and predicted the continued slowdown of inflation in the near term.
26 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday said that it made sense to expect the ECB to leave interest rates unchanged at the coming Governing Council meetings.
26 January 2024