By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Any further delay the European Central Bank faces in restoring price stability would be unacceptable, Governing Council member Tuomas Välimäki said on Tuesday.
3 October 2023
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Tuesday said that the December monetary policy meeting of the ECB Governing Council shouldn’t be assumed to be the occasion for an important decision.
3 October 2023
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Tuesday said that monetary tightening in the euro area and other jurisdictions was showing up in various price measures and that disinflation, also at the level of consumer prices, would continue.
3 October 2023
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Tuesday said that wage growth was continuing to contribute to euro area price pressures and that it would be well into next year before it would be known whether the slowdown of wages envisaged by ECB projections had materialised.
3 October 2023
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Tuesday said that it remained much too soon to celebrate victory over inflation.
3 October 2023
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 14 September, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 11 September .
2 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Monday said that the increase in short-term interest rates was challenging for some borrowers.
2 October 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday said the ECB's future decisions would be determined by the intensity of policy transmission to real economy.
2 October 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos on Monday indicated receptiveness to implementing macroprudential policy more flexibly, in particular so as to release buffers in times of stress and thus support lending.
2 October 2023
By David Barwick – SKOPJE (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Friday said that the ECB had probably reached the peak of the current tightening cycle.
29 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that the ECB was interested in having monetary policy take climate into yet greater consideration than currently.
29 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Friday said that the ECB’s interest rates were at the correct level.
29 September 2023
By David Barwick – SKOPJE (Econostream) – Euro area inflation was quite likely to decline over the next months, but the true test for a return to price stability would be next spring or so, European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said Friday.
29 September 2023
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 14 September, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 11 September .
27 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) - European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Wednesday that a further rate hike by the ECB could not be excluded under conditions of high uncertainty.
27 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that inflation was expected to remain too high for too long, but that key interest rates were now at levels that, if kept there long enough, would help restore price stability.
25 September 2023
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday suggested that concerns of monetary policy overtightening based on the marked deceleration of money growth were misplaced.
25 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos on Monday reiterated that setting monetary policy in a very data-dependent way allowed policymakers to skirt the dangers of going too far and not going far enough with policy.
25 September 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday said that the risks of monetary policy tightening going too far had reached the point of symmetry versus the risks of not going far enough.
25 September 2023
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 14 September, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 11 September .
22 September 2023