By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Savers may benefit before long from increased interest rates, European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said late Wednesday.
6 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Wage developments in line with inflation or without regard to productivity would exacerbate the danger of a wage-price spiral, according to the Central Bank of Ireland on Wednesday.
6 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Wednesday said that Russian military aggression against Ukraine had not materially affected euro area financial stability.
6 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a reasonably complete compendium of the most recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members with respect to monetary policy. Updates are made on a periodic basis.
4 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Monday spoke out in favour of eliminating negative official borrowing costs by the end of 2022.
4 April 2022
By David Barwick – PARIS (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s monetary policy can be gradually normalised so as to reach a more neutral policy stance, Executive Board member Philip Lane said Thursday.
31 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday reiterated key points pertaining to monetary policy and the economic outlook.
30 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday expressed concern about high rates of inflation and said that the ECB would take all warranted steps in pursuit of price stability.
30 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Rate hikes by the European Central Bank in September and December of this year would be in line with what the ECB has stated, Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Wednesday.
30 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank has more room to wait after ending net asset purchases before starting to hike interest rates, ECB Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Tuesday.
29 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Saturday denied any ‘material risk’ that the euro area would enter stagflation due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
28 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that the ECB was keeping all its options open, but that monetary policy normalisation was coming, depending on the data.
25 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Sharon Kozicki on Friday said that Canadian monetary authorities would discuss the specifics of rate hikes and of quantitative tightening at their next meeting.
25 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a reasonably complete compendium of the most recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members with respect to monetary policy. Updates are made on a periodic basis.
25 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Thursday said he wouldn’t be surprised if the ECB ultimately hiked interest rates this year.
24 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank had to take some action in view of concerns about the potential for inflation expectations and wage agreements to be negatively influenced, ECB Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Tuesday.
22 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said that monetary policy had to continue the process of gradual normalisation.
22 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Tuesday suggested that limited European financial exposure to Russia meant that the main impact of Russian military aggression against Ukraine would be macroeconomic.
22 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Tuesday stuck to a reiteration of previously expressed views regarding the impact of Russian aggression on growth and inflation and key considerations for monetary policy.
22 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Euro area HICP in 2024 of 1.9%, as currently projected by the European Central Bank, is not out of the question, but is also not too likely, ECB Governing Council member Robert Holzmann suggested on Tuesday.
22 March 2022