By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that the ECB would do whatever it takes to bring inflation down from its currently high levels.
8 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle reiterated on Wednesday that he expected rate hikes to continue after the central bank’s upcoming meeting in March.
8 March 2023
- ECB insider: Reducing pace of hiking post-March to 25bp the correct strategy
- ECB insider: Others will oppose post-March slowdown of tightening pace
- ECB insider: ‘Very little discussion that we are now in restrictive territory’
- ECB insider: Some Council members will see the ECB as no longer very far from the terminal rate
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Tuesday that rate hikes should continue for quite some time beyond the ECB's monetary policy meeting next week.
8 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Central Bank of Ireland on Wednesday said that domestic inflation was set to be lower than previously expected in 2023 but that underlying inflation pressures looked set to persist.
8 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said on Wednesday that monetary policy would have to move cautiously to protect financial stability and the fragile economy.
8 March 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank would have to react more strongly with monetary policy if fiscal policy were to be generally expansionary, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Tuesday.
7 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – According to the European Central Bank’s Consumer Expectations Survey results for January 2023, released on Tuesday, Eurozone citizens’ perceptions of inflation have declined across multiple time horizons.
7 March 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank might need to tighten the monetary policy screws yet further if the risk of second-round effects, already heightened due to persistently elevated inflation, were to materialise, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Tuesday.
7 March 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will likely need to counter undiminished core inflation with 50bp rate hikes at each of the Governing Council’s next four monetary policy meetings, according to Council member Robert Holzmann on Monday.
6 March 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Past the habitual dovishness, other, at first glance less substantive comments published Monday in an interview with European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno may actually offer the more interesting insight into the challenge the ECB will face in maintaining the current pace of monetary tightening beyond March.
6 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said on Monday that the momentum of core inflation in the euro area was not showing signs of declining.
6 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Monday that lower inflation forecasts should be taken into account as the central bank decides on the future path of interest rates after its March meeting.
6 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Sunday that euro area core inflation was set to remain sticky in the immediate term.
5 March 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a compendium of comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members related to ECB monetary policy. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of February 2.
3 March 2023
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday said that it was impossible to say now where the ECB’s terminal rate would lie and that this was something time would tell.
3 March 2023
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday suggested that official borrowing costs in the euro area might have to stay elevated for a relatively long time.
3 March 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Friday said that the ECB would continue to hike interest rates beyond the increase already intended for this month.
3 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Thursday that markets' quantitative tightening (QT) expectations had contributed to rising yields in the euro area and thus complemented the ECB’s rate hikes.
2 March 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said it was possible that the ECB's monetary policy would remain on its current path even after the March meeting of the Governing Council.
2 March 2023