By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that persistent inflation required a stubborn response from the European Central Bank.
13 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank faces a choice of hiking by either 25bp or 50bp at its next monetary policy meeting in May, Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Thursday.
13 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The risk of the European Central Bank not doing enough to fight inflation is clearly higher than the risk of going too far, Governing Council Member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday.
13 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank still has some way to go on rate hikes, ECB Governing Council member Edward Scicluna said on Thursday.
13 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A 50bp hike remains an option for the European Central Bank in May, depending on market conditions, Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Thursday.
13 April 2023
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Wednesday said that the ECB could have to tighten monetary policy a bit further yet.
12 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Eurozone faces the risk of entrenched inflation, with price pressures becoming more widespread and potentially more persistent, European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
11 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said on Monday that if the central bank’s baseline projections are confirmed, there will still be ground to cover to stamp out inflation.
10 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should keep hiking rates and the fight against inflation is not yet over, Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Monday.
10 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Sunday that it was almost completely excluded that Eurozone policymakers could decide to cut rates this year.
9 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Euro area banks are less sensitive to rate hikes than regional banks in the US and Credit Suisse, European Central Bank Governing Council member Philip Lane said on Thursday.
6 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – According to the European Central Bank’s latest Consumer Expectations Survey results, released on Tuesday, euro area citizens’ perceptions of inflation continued to decline in February.
4 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The impact of the European Central Bank’s rate hikes on the real economy is well underway, but policymakers should be wary of longer lags in transmission, Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Tuesday.
4 April 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Sunday said that the ECB was nearly at the end of the hiking cycle.
2 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank has been paying insufficient attention to increased profits, which could be a driver of persistent inflation, Executive Board member Fabio Panetta said on Sunday.
2 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice-President Luis de Guindos said on Saturday that recent financial may lead to a drop in consumer confidence and lower demand.
1 April 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Core inflation is still significantly too high in the euro area, which means that the European Central Bank still has ground to cover, its President Christine Lagarde said on Friday.
31 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank has completed most of its rate hikes, though may possibly still have a little way to go, ECB Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday.
31 March 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Thursday confirmed that interest rates would rise further if the ECB’s baseline materialised, but that specifics would hinge on developments up to the day of the decision.
30 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – WASHINGTON, D.C. (Econostream) – Inflation in the euro area is now being driven principally by domestic demand rather than supply-side factors, European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday.
29 March 2023