By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – The Lithuanian Treasury is frontloading issuance, as the upcoming elections are limiting favourable conditions for bond issuance, according to Rasa Kavolytė, Director of the Lithuanian State Treasury Department.
4 April 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is likely to start easing monetary policy in June, ECB Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
3 April 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will very probably cut rates in June if available information warrant the move, hoping in this case that the US Federal Reserve does the same later in the month, ECB Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said Wednesday.
3 April 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 7 March, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 4 March .
2 April 2024
By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s consumer expectations survey, released Tuesday, showed inflation expectations over the next 12 months down in February, while expectations for economic growth 12 months ahead remained unchanged.
2 April 2024
By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – The end of the first half of 2024 is the best time for the first interest rate cut, European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said in an article published on Monday.
1 April 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday called it crucial that, in the context of the operational framework, the ECB’s monetary policy stance and its implementation be seen separately.
1 April 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday warned of the risk of getting behind the curve if the ECB waited too long reduce interest rates.
28 March 2024
By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 26 March 2024 with Marjan Divjak, Director General of the Treasury Directorate of Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance:
28 March 2024
By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Slovenia is sticking to its strategic objective to come to global markets every third year to issue a benchmark-size bond, according to Marjan Divjak, Director General of the Treasury Directorate of Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance.
28 March 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Thursday said that the conditions to start cutting interest rates were materialising as inflation was falling and the risks to price stability had diminished.
28 March 2024
By Aurėja Bobelytė – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Climate change constitutes a grave danger to the stability of economies and the financial system, European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Wednesday.
27 March 2024
By Isabel Teles – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Wednesday said that waiting too long to reduce interest rates could pose risks to economic growth in the context of already weak activity.
27 March 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Wednesday faithfully carried on the tradition of his predecessor with a speech intended above all to undermine the ECB’s unjustifiably timid approach to monetary easing.
27 March 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday indicated that he had no problem with financial market expectations of a June ECB rate cut.
27 March 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank Governing Council has reached a consensus to start cutting rates in June, and a total of four cuts by the end of the year would be reasonable, Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Tuesday.
26 March 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The rhetoric coming from the European Central Bank has for some time been perceived as favouring a first rate cut in June. A closer look at the publicly stated positions of Governing Council members only confirms this impression.
26 March 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Monday said that when there was confirmation that inflation was converging to the 2% target, the Governing Council would consider cutting interest rates.
25 March 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Monday said the recent inflation developments were increasing the consensus behind an interest rate cut within the Governing Council.
25 March 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 7 March, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 4 March .
25 March 2024