By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should be willing to allow inflation to overshoot its target for a certain period of time, Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Sunday.
10 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martins Kazaks said Friday that the ECB might decide in June to slow its asset purchase pace.
10 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Monday compared the recovery to a long journey requiring sustained policy support.
10 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Monday tempered the optimism of his previous most recent public comments by a shift in emphasis from the upturn to come to the downturn that was as an argument for maintaining policy support.
10 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A premature withdrawal of policy support measures should be avoided, although prolonging them unnecessarily could also be harmful, European Central Bank Governing Council member Constantinos Herodotou said on Sunday.
9 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German exports climbed a seasonally and calendar-adjusted 1.2% on the month in March, the German Federal Statistical Office said on Friday.
7 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The surge in energy inflation over the last few months was due almost entirely to a base effect that contributed about one percentage point to headline euro area HICP, the European Central Bank said on Thursday.
6 May 2021
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Wednesday indicated that strong economic growth in Germany would make another stimulus package unnecessary.
6 May 2021
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday voiced renewed optimism about Europe’s economic recovery.
6 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A firm economic recovery is coming, while the inflation outlook past the short-term surge of rates remains subdued, the European Central Bank said on Thursday.
6 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German manufacturers reported a real, seasonally and calendar-adjusted increase in new orders in March of 3.0% on the month and 27.8% on the year, the German Federal Statistical Office announced on Thursday.
6 May 2021
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Thursday said that the days of international tax dumping were numbered.
6 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With a share in the European Central Bank’s capital of not quite 3% and a level of GDP that ranks sixth among Eurozone member economies, one might not expect Belgium’s central bank governor to play a crucial role in determining the outcome of an ECB Governing Council monetary policy meeting.
5 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on May 4 with Australian Office of Financial Management CEO Robert Nicholl:
5 May 2021
- AOFM CEO Nicholl: Ready for Ongoing Large Issuance Tasks, But Worst Probably Behind Us
5 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau’s exhortations on Tuesday and Wednesday not to ‘exaggerate the alarms’ with regard to corporate insolvencies may take some of the wind out of the sails of those for whom this issue might become the newest argument for extending policy support ad infinitum.
5 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said Wednesday that although corporate insolvencies will increase, there is no current reason to think that the increase will be more than a return to normal levels.
4 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must make progress towards its price stability objective for monetary policy to be normalised, ECB Governing Council member and German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said Friday.
3 May 2021
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday suggested that the emergency measures taken by the ECB may be approaching the point at which they would need phasing out.
3 May 2021
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday gave the least ambiguous indication to date from the Eurotower that the emergency measures taken by the ECB may be approaching the point at which they would need phasing out.
3 May 2021