By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Monday that a rate hike in June would be warranted if the inflation outlook did not improve markedly by then.
4 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Agence France Trésor (AFT) issued €8.194 billion of fixed-rate discount Treasury bills (BTFs) on Monday, close to the top of its indicated €6.6 billion to €8.2 billion range, with bids covering the amount served about 3.9 times.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said Monday that the current economic situation was highly uncertain because of the Middle East war and volatile energy markets.
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday that monetary policy must remain cautious and alert, while staying ready to respond quickly if needed.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday that tokenized financial markets needed central bank money in tokenized form at their core to preserve monetary policy effectiveness, financial stability and monetary sovereignty.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller said Monday that the ECB had scope not to rush decisions on raising interest rates, given that policy rates were now roughly neutral.
4 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Monday that the ECB was likely to raise interest rates in June, with the direction of the next move “sufficiently obvious” given higher inflation and increased inflation risks.
4 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Outgoing European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos is not campaigning against former Banco de España Governor Pablo Hernández de Cos for the ECB presidency, but with each successive interview, he sounds less like someone actively supporting him.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Monday that policy tightening in June was “all but inevitable”, given that events since March had not surprised the ECB positively.
4 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The jump in oil prices caused by the Middle East war is rapidly feeding into prices in the most oil-dependent sectors of the Eurozone economy, though broader pass-through could be more gradual than in the past, according to the European Central Bank’s latest corporate telephone survey, released on Monday.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Despite the weekend and the May 1 holiday in almost all euro area countries, a third of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council has spoken publicly since President Christine Lagarde’s press conference on Thursday. The message has come across: June is very live.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Monday said Europe was naive if it continued to apply open-market and state-aid rules designed for a global economy that no longer existed.
4 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Sunday said the ECB’s policy response to the Middle East shock would depend on the intensity, duration and transmission channels of the disruption, and that a robust response would be needed if inflation deviated significantly and persistently from target.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Sunday said the current inflation shock was very different from that of 2021 and 2022 and that the ECB had been right to wait before deciding on any interest rate hike.
3 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Saturday said the ECB would have to react quickly and decisively if higher energy prices began feeding into wages and other prices and inflation expectations started rising.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Friday said he was concerned about a higher-for-longer energy price scenario and would closely monitor indirect effects on inflation from the Middle East war.
1 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said the ECB should respond in June if the inflation outlook did not improve markedly, warning that developments were less favorable than assumed in the central bank’s earlier baseline scenario.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller said the ECB had not yet needed to raise interest rates this week, but that it was increasingly likely it would have to do so later.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said the central bank was ready to adjust monetary policy quickly and decisively if necessary, as the Middle East war had worsened the inflation outlook and raised the risk of longer-lasting price pressures.
1 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Primož Dolenc said Friday that current conditions had allowed the ECB to keep interest rates unchanged on Thursday, but that the Governing Council would re-examine the situation at coming meetings as more data became available and the course of the Middle East war became clearer.
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