By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday that inflation in the Eurozone was almost at the ECB’s target of 2%.
31 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Friday that he was encouraged by recent data with regards to inflation but warned against being too optimistic.
28 March 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – LONDON (Econostream) – Observers of the European Central Bank who looked to Thursday evening’s event in the British capital with Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel for clues about what the ECB is likely to do next may have been disappointed by the ostensible lack of such hints.
28 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 14 March 2025 with Maric Post, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets of the Belgian Debt Agency.
28 March 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Belgium could deliver an issuance in the 30-year maturity bucket via auction this year if there is enough demand, according to Maric Post, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets of the Belgian Debt Agency.
28 March 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Friday that the ECB’s baseline scenario could worsen as the situation gets more and more complicated.
28 March 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Thursday said that higher levels of financial literacy were conducive to monetary policy transmission.
27 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that the global economy will face further downward revisions for economic growth and upward revisions for inflation in some countries.
27 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 13 March 2025 with Matthew Emde, Director General of Funds Management at the Canadian Department of Finance:
27 March 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Canada is not expecting to deliver another USD bond issuance in 2025 after ‘great success’ of the transaction on March 11, according to Matthew Emde, Director General of Funds Management at the Canadian Department of Finance.
27 March 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that it was very hard to predict the outcome of the April meeting.
27 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday that the ECB should take into consideration the rise in European bond yields if nothing else changes among the variables the ECB monitors.
27 March 2025 Central Bank News
- As of today, the stage is set more for another cut rather than for a pause
27 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Thursday that the ECB should considering pausing interest rate cuts in its April meeting.
27 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that the ECB could keep cutting interest rates as long as the baseline scenario was still valid.
27 March 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A tariff of 20% on European exports to the US would likely result in clearly lower German economic growth, with the inflation impact harder to assess, according to Deutsche Bundesbank Board member Fritzi Köhler-Geib on Wednesday.
26 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – LISBON (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 20 March with Mário Centeno, governor of the Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
26 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – LISBON (Econostream) – There is no reason for the European Central Bank to pause interest rate cuts in the April meeting, according to ECB Governing Council member Mário Centeno.
26 March 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday that there was still more to be done by the ECB in its easing cycle given what macroeconomic indicators and projections were showing.
26 March 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – There is no need to reduce interest rates any further to restore price stability to the euro area, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Wednesday.
26 March 2025 Central Bank News