By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Supply constraints affecting trade in euro area goods are gradually diminishing, whilst tourism services face declining demand ahead, the European Central Bank said on Monday.
7 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday said that interest rate hikes should continue until core euro area HICP has clearly peaked, but indicated that a slower pace of hiking may not be far away.
7 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that the ECB’s job was far from done and that the withdrawal of accommodation might not be sufficient.
4 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday made the case for smaller ECB interest rate hikes, saying that he had supported a 50bp move at last week’s monetary policy meeting.
4 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Friday said that inflation needed to peak for monetary policy to become more predictable, and that this could occur in the current quarter.
4 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Friday warned that persistently high inflation increased the danger of second-round effects.
4 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Fabio Panetta on Thursday gave a carefully worded defence of a slower pace of monetary policy normalisation.
3 November 2022
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that any recession in the euro area would be mild and thus not the remedy for elevated inflation.
3 November 2022
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank still needs to hike official borrowing costs by a lot and should therefore continue implementing rate increases into next year, according to ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Thursday.
3 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank still has ‘some way to go’ on its journey of monetary policy normalisation, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
2 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Wednesday said that economic and geopolitical uncertainty had led to a new period of financial volatility.
2 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will have to undertake additional rate hikes, but long-term inflation expectations are still well anchored, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
2 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said that there remained a long way to the end of the ECB’s current hiking cycle and suggested that quantitative tightening start early next year.
2 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday repeated with no obviously significant deviation the main messages of last Thursday’s post-Council meeting press conference, promising despite risen recessionary risks further rate hikes based on a meeting-by-meeting approach.
1 November 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Growth prospects have worsened considerably lately, making it more essential that the European Central Bank do its duty and ensure price stability, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Monday.
31 October 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – High inflation and debt are some of the factors contributing to the uncertainty and the challenging nature of the current moment, European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Monday.
31 October 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Just days after the European Central Bank Governing Council decided to hike interest rates by a whopping 75bp for the second time in a row, one of its leading hawks, Klaas Knot, has positioned himself as leaning in the direction of a third such outsize step. He may be getting ahead of himself.
31 October 2022
By David Barwick – ATHENS (Econostream) – Greek banks faces no particular threat of a substantial outflow of deposits and are expected to eventually pass along to their depositors the interest rate hikes of the European Central Bank, a high-level Greek official assured Econostream.
31 October 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should not underestimate the danger of hiking interest rates too rapidly for economic prospects, if the latter turn out to be gloomier than anticipated, ECB Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said on Monday.
31 October 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is planning a non-monetary policy meeting of the Governing Council in northern Finland in February, Econostream understands.
28 October 2022