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ECB’s Lagarde: ‘What We Do in September Is Wide Open'

ECB’s Lagarde: ‘What We Do in September Is Wide Open'

By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that there was no predetermined path for euro area interest rates and that the next Governing Council meeting in September would bring important data.

18 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged

ECB Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged

By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council on Thursday decided to keep its three key interest rates unchanged, as widely expected by markets and analysts.

18 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB Insight: No Signals, No Flags, No Guidance, No Promises

ECB Insight: No Signals, No Flags, No Guidance, No Promises

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It is a struggle to come up with much about the European Central Bank Governing Council’s current policy stance that monetary authorities are likely to want to change this week. The key interest rates should figure near the bottom of any list.

16 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB: Net Tightening in Loans to Firms Expected in 2H2024

ECB: Net Tightening in Loans to Firms Expected in 2H2024

By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s latest Bank Lending Survey (BLS), released on Tuesday, showed further tightening in 1H of credit standards for loans to enterprises, and that euro area banks continued to expect a net tightening in lending conditions for the remainder of the year.

16 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB: Firms Expect Moderation in Selling Prices and Wage Increases

ECB: Firms Expect Moderation in Selling Prices and Wage Increases

By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), released Monday, showed that euro area firms expect price and wage increases to moderate and inflation to decline over a one-year horizon.

15 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Knot: AI Could Be Beneficial, Given the Right Regulations

ECB’s Knot: AI Could Be Beneficial, Given the Right Regulations

By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Thursday said that appropriate policies were necessary to guarantee that artificial intelligence (AI) contributed positively to the economy.

11 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Villeroy: Inflation Shock Is Being Replaced by Uncertainty Shock

ECB’s Villeroy: Inflation Shock Is Being Replaced by Uncertainty Shock

By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday said that uncertainty was emerging as a new threat to growth and employment at the same time that the impact of inflation was fading. 

11 July 2024 Central Bank News
Exclusive: ECB’s Centeno: Recent PPI Data Call Into Question the Adequacy of Our Easing Pace

Exclusive: ECB’s Centeno: Recent PPI Data Call Into Question the Adequacy of Our Easing Pace

By Isabel Teles – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – The decline of euro area producer prices since the end of 2022, confirmed by weaker-than-expected May data released last week, is grounds for the ECB to ask itself whether it is easing monetary policy rapidly enough to avoid undershooting inflation, according to ECB Governing Council member Mário Centeno.

9 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB Insight: While Ultimately Unlikely to Give Fragmentation a Pass, Insiders Hate to Even Think About TPI and France

ECB Insight: While Ultimately Unlikely to Give Fragmentation a Pass, Insiders Hate to Even Think About TPI and France

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank insiders show great reluctance even to consider a priori the use of the transmission protection instrument (TPI) for the benefit of France, but seem disinclined to tolerate fragmentation, were it to really come to it, based on the views of various Eurosystem insiders who spoke to Econostream recently on the subject.

5 July 2024 Central Bank News
ECB’s Nagel: Privacy Is Key to Digital Euro's Success

ECB’s Nagel: Privacy Is Key to Digital Euro's Success

By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Ensuring the protection of privacy is crucial for the success of the digital euro, European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Friday.

5 July 2024 Central Bank News