By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Tuesday said that tariffs could ultimately prove deflationary and that growth in the euro area was very weak.
22 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Tuesday that the euro area was nearing completion of the disinflation process but was also in the midst of grappling with economic shocks.
22 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Tuesday said that ECB monetary policy had ceased to hold back euro area economic growth.
22 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Tuesday said that the uncertainty over US trade policy was dampening euro area economic growth.
22 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Monday said that the ECB would set policy meeting by meeting in an environment characterised by diminishing price pressures and a high chance of recession.
21 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Bank of Slovenia Deputy Governor Primož Dolenc on Friday said that disinflation was going as anticipated and the European Central Bank’s Governing Council would act on the basis of available information
18 April 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that inflation risks were now weaker and probably to the downside.
18 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Official euro area interest rates are not holding back growth any longer, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday.
18 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank may have considered it an inopportune moment to reach a monetary policy decision other than what financial markets were expecting, according to ECB Governing Council member Gaston Reinesch on Friday.
18 April 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that the impact of US tariffs on inflation in the euro area would depend on negotiations with the affected countries, among other factors.
17 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Somewhat unusually, no one tried to draw out European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde at Thursday’s press conference on the Governing Council’s sentiment toward a potential cut at the next monetary policy meeting on June 5.
17 April 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Thursday that the ECB would know more about the impact of US tariffs on the euro area by its next Governing Council meeting in June.
17 April 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - The European Central Bank’s Governing Council decided on Thursday to cut its three key interest rates by 25bp, as widely expected by markets and analysts.
17 April 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – While US President Donald Trump may have declared a 90-day pause before (reduced) tariffs take effect, and dealmaking to further cushion the blow to Europe is likely, the European Central Bank is not about to dismiss the entire tariff episode as a tempest in a teapot.
15 April 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 31 March 2025 with Daniel Bytcanek, director of the Slovak Debt and Liquidity Management Agency.
11 April 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Slovakia could issue a new dual-tranche bond in a benchmark transaction this autumn with a maturity of 12 and 20 years, according to Daniel Bytcanek, director of the Slovak Debt and Liquidity Management Agency.
11 April 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Friday that the ECB was monitoring financial market developments but that these were functioning in an ‘orderly’ way.
11 April 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Friday that policymakers should deliver robust measures in the face of high uncertainty.
11 April 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – With the pre-meeting quiet period of the European Central Bank having started today, we have collected in one place the key comments of Governing Council members regarding the US tariffs announced on April 2.
10 April 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that the decision of the US administration to pause the increase in tariffs for 90 days was a sensible call to make.
9 April 2025 Central Bank News