By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Friday that there was currently no need for the ECB to act.
17 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Friday advocated further ECB monetary policy easing.
17 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Edward Scicluna said he doesn’t expect any change to interest rates this month, while signaling that the December policy meeting will feature a more heated discussion on the basis of new data and projections.
17 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday reaffirmed that the ECB would decide its monetary policy stance on a meeting-by-meeting basis, guided by data and without pre-commitment to any rate path.
17 October 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Thursday that the ECB was trying to be fully flexible in its moves and would stick to its meeting-by-meeting approach.
16 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Wednesday said that he saw no grounds at the moment for changing euro area interest rates.
16 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Thursday made a plea to leave open all possibilities for monetary policy.
16 October 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said on Thursday that interest rates would remain unchanged unless a significant shock materialized.
16 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Thursday said that the likelihood of a renewed ECB interest rate cut had been diminishing.
16 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Wednesday said that the ECB was in a good position from which to maintain its current monetary policy stance while observing the course of economic developments.
16 October 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that if the ECB were to adjust interest rates again, the move would more likely be down rather than up.
15 October 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said that there was no reason for moving ECB interest rates and that it was difficult to envision scenarios that would call for a shift in policy.
15 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday suggested that the ECB’s next interest rate move could be up as easily as down, and characterized inflation risks as tilted to the upside.
15 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Wednesday reiterated his view that the euro had a chance to become more important globally.
15 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Tuesday repeated his positive assessment of European monetary policy, growth and inflation and rejected pre-commitment to any evolution of interest rates.
14 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday pushed back against those claiming a rate hike could be the ECB’s next move just as easily as a cut.
14 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Tuesday said that the ECB remained in a good place.
14 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday questioned whether the attractiveness of the US was a permanent feature of the global financial architecture.
14 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said that euro area monetary policy had achieved its purpose and that the inflation picture seemed positive both at present and in the medium term.
14 October 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Financial markets see euro area interest rates persisting at their current level, European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said Saturday.
11 October 2025 Central Bank News