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Market Expectations of ECB Rate Hike Path Reasonable, Wunsch Says

Market Expectations of ECB Rate Hike Path Reasonable, Wunsch Says

By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Thursday that market expectations of a further 75bp of ECB tightening were reasonable, and laid out the conditions which might lead to the ECB hiking by 50bp in May.

13 April 2023 Central Bank News
Next ECB Rate Hike a Choice Between 25BP and 50BP, Wunsch Says

Next ECB Rate Hike a Choice Between 25BP and 50BP, Wunsch Says

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 Central Bank News
ECB’s Villeroy Warns of Persistent and Entrenched Eurozone Inflation Risk

ECB’s Villeroy Warns of Persistent and Entrenched Eurozone Inflation Risk

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 Central Bank News
ECB Not Yet Done Hiking, and Won’t Cut This Year, Knot Says

ECB Not Yet Done Hiking, and Won’t Cut This Year, Knot Says

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 Central Bank News
Exclusive: ECB’s Šimkus: Ending APP Reinvestments from July ‘One of the Options’

Exclusive: ECB’s Šimkus: Ending APP Reinvestments from July ‘One of the Options’

- Šimkus: Active asset sales ‘could be an option some day in the future’, but not for July
- Šimkus: ‘Let’s deal with the APP and then come back to the PEPP’
- Šimkus: ‘I don’t see a pause in hiking rates in May as a likely scenario’
- Šimkus: Size of rate moves ‘will depend on the data, but we still have some way to go’
- Šimkus: ‘We still need to let the impact of past policy moves kick in’
- Šimkus: ‘Need to maintain the restrictive stance for quite some time’
- Šimkus: ‘Very unlikely that we will see any decrease in interest rates this year’
- Šimkus: OPEC oil production cut a ‘one-off factor’; no need to ‘overreact or exaggerate’
- Šimkus: Core inflation to ‘remain pretty high’ throughout 2023
- Šimkus: Core inflation ‘stickier than many people think’

6 April 2023 Central Bank News
ECB Says Consumer Inflation Expectations Continue To Fall

ECB Says Consumer Inflation Expectations Continue To Fall

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 Central Bank News