By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank said on Friday that recent wage agreements posed an upside risk to the inflation outlook, with wage pressures becoming an ever more important driver of underlying inflation.
19 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Governing Council leaks about monetary policy are frequent and have a sizable impact on financial markets, according to a blog published by the European Central Bank on Friday.
19 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Constantinos Herodotou on Thursday said that despite the decline of headline inflation and the ‘significant tightening’ seen in financing conditions, uncertainty remained high.
18 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of key recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members with respect to monetary policy. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 4 May.
17 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Growth prospects hinge on whether inflation subsides, European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
17 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Core inflation has to be headed lastingly downward for the European Central Bank to stop hiking interest rates, ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Thursday.
17 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Housing investment in the euro area has been less affected by monetary policy tightening than in the United States because mortgage markets are less indebted, leveraged and securitised, the ECB said on Wednesday.
17 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – PARIS (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 03 May with Agence France Trésor Chief Executive Cyril Rousseau:
17 May 2023
- AFT's Rousseau sees ‘slightly higher demand’ for domestic inflation-linked products
- AFT's Rousseau: 10% inflation-linked target ‘not a fixed target but rather a soft one’
- AFT's Rousseau: ‘Don’t think de-anchoring is the main explanation’ for inflation swaps trading high
- AFT's Rousseau: Looks like resumption of money market activities by sovereigns ‘have not destabilised the market’
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Lower-income households have suffered more from rising prices of late, but government support has alleviated some of the effects of the recent inflation surge, the European Central Bank said on Tuesday.
16 May 2023
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 15 May 2023 with Robert Holzmann, Governor of the Austrian National Bank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
16 May 2023
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is hopefully heading for a terminal rate of somewhat above 4%, even if the smaller moves that are now likelier to characterise monetary tightening could imply hiking interest rates beyond the summer, according to ECB Governing Council member Robert Holzmann.
16 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday reiterated that the ECB was close to the end of the current monetary policy tightening phase.
16 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Governments, firms and social partners must support the European Central Bank in its pursuit of price stability, Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Monday.
15 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The economy should feel the biggest impact of the European Central Bank’s recent flurry of rate rises next year, the central bank said on Monday.
15 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank may have to hike interest rates longer than expected to deal with the ongoing problem of increasing core inflation, ECB Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said Sunday.
14 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Sunday that the ECB was in the final stretch of its tightening cycle.
14 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank needs to be cautious as it approaches its next monetary policy decisions, as monetary tightening is beginning to pose risks to the real economy, ECB Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said on Saturday.
13 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of key recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members with respect to monetary policy. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 4 May.
12 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank may need to continue increasing interest rates beyond the summer, Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Friday.
12 May 2023