By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Tuesday that the ECB would have an ‘open mind’ in the October meeting even as downside risks to growth might already be taking materialising.
8 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Monday that Europe needed to take more steps towards a capital markets union, which he characterised as essential.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday confirmed that the Governing Council was likely to cut interest rates at its next monetary policy meeting.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday that the latest economic data suggested growth could be slower than expected, while inflation was falling faster than projected.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday that the potential of tokenisation technologies should not be ignored by public authorities, lest the risk of fragmentation emerge.
7 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday confirmed that the Governing Council was likely to cut interest rates at its next monetary policy meeting
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Friday that the ECB should consider holding a larger share of EU supranational bonds.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Friday that inflation had surprised positively lately while growth was still subject to downside risks.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Friday declared victory over inflation and pointed to the recent decrease in services inflation.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Wednesday that the Eurozone’s sluggish economy needed another ECB rate cut to avoid undershooting inflation.
2 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that the ECB must not ignore the headwinds to growth and that a return of inflation to the 2% target was now more probable.
2 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Wednesday that growth had been weaker than expected and that risks remained tilted to the downside.
2 October 2024
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday said that economic growth required risk-taking on the part of banks.
2 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Tuesday that recent inflation data supported the case for an ECB rate cut in October.
1 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that the ECB should only significantly increase its balance sheet under exceptional circumstances.
1 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday that survey data provided important insights for the ECB, citing the inflation shock beginning in 2022 as an example.
1 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that the ECB’s confidence about restoring price stability had strengthened lately and that this would factor into the Governing Council's rate decision in October.
30 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Friday that the euro area might be very close to the end of high inflation.
27 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday spoke in favour of more digitalisation while also urging that the associated risks be kept in mind.
27 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Friday that Europe had to watch that foreign central bank digital currencies did not weaken the international importance of the euro.
27 September 2024