By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Tuesday confirmed that interest rates would rise further, with any recession not clearly going to have a significant impact per se on inflation.
15 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said that indications of a turnaround in US core and headline inflation were a welcome development on both sides of the Atlantic.
15 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday warned that quantitative tightening could, depending on the degree, have profoundly negative financial stability and economic consequences.
15 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will set forth in December the key principles of its approach to reducing the size of its balance sheet, Vice President Luis de Guindos said Monday.
14 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Fabio Panetta on Monday said that monetary policy had to proceed carefully, lest too much tightening caused a permanent output decline, but accepted the need to withdraw accommodation and did not exclude moving into restrictive territory.
14 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Constantinos Herodotou on Tuesday said that decisions about rate hikes should take into account factors including the probability of recession.
14 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said that he would support more ECB interest rate hikes.
11 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Friday warned that the tightening of monetary policy globally posed risks to the stability of the financial system.
11 November 2022
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will continue to hike interest rates in December, but the magnitude of the hike remains completely open for now, Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Friday.
11 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Thursday said that reinvestments of maturing assets did not correspond to the ECB’s general attempt to normalise monetary policy.
10 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank cannot count on a possible euro area recession to do its job with respect to high inflation, according to ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Thursday.
10 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank has to act pre-emptively in an environment featuring almost solely upside inflation risks, Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said Thursday.
10 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Increased market rates in the wake of European Central Bank monetary policy tightening could also harbour risks for the banking sector, De Nederlandsche Bank Executive Board member Steven Maijoor said Thursday.
10 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday said that the ECB would have hiked rates by the end of this year to around 2%, but would probably have to go further to deal with inflation.
10 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Wednesday expressed the need to bring inflation under control as a means of limiting the toll on economic growth.
9 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s consumer expectations survey, released Wednesday for the third time, showed a slight increase in September in expectations of inflation in one year, but no change in the corresponding measure for three years ahead.
9 November 2022
By David Barwick – GENEVA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Tuesday said that the view of financial markets that real interest rates would have to approach zero could prove optimistic.
8 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Tuesday said that quantitative tightening in the euro area would start next year but would have to be approached cautiously.
8 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday called for continued monetary policy tightening even if slower growth were a consequence.
8 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Supply constraints affecting trade in euro area goods are gradually diminishing, whilst tourism services face declining demand ahead, the European Central Bank said on Monday.
7 November 2022