By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that the ECB provided markets with some ‘policy orientation’ on the journey to the inflation target when this was possible.
30 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The risk of the European Central Bank seriously undershooting its inflation target is still small, ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said Wednesday.
30 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 23 October with Mário Centeno, Governor of the Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
29 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must remain open on the size of a potential December cut, which will be driven by the imperative of not undershooting the ECB's inflation target, Governing Council member Mário Centeno said last Wednesday.
29 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday that the ECB would keep ‘all options open’ at future Governing Council meetings regarding the number and the magnitude of interest rate cuts.
29 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday said that euro area disinflation was proceeding well, though was subject to considerable risks.
28 October 2024
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Saturday warned once more of the danger of overly tight ECB monetary policy.
28 October 2024
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should probably undershoot its 2% price stability target at least initially, Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said Saturday.
28 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Saturday that the ECB should avoid acting too quickly and that the meeting-by-meeting approach had worked well.
26 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Saturday that inflation numbers could fall more quickly than what the ECB had anticipated in the near term.
26 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Friday that the Eurozone economy might have weakened further in the second part of 2024 due to geopolitical factors.
25 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that even though the decades-long decline of r* had stopped, the neutral rate was still significantly lower than the current level of euro area interest rates.
25 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Thursday that inflation would hit the ECB's 2% target at some point next year.
24 October 2024
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Thursday said that it was probable that euro area inflation would be at the ECB’s target before the end of 2025 envisioned by the current macroeconomic projections.
24 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday that the ECB should change its approach to communications and embrace again the ‘normal way’ of communicating.
23 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Wednesday that the ECB had concluded at its latest meeting that risks to inflation were balanced.
23 October 2024
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Wednesday said that disinflation was proceeding well and that the euro area economy was not experiencing a ‘dramatic weakening’.
23 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – Madrid (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 08 October 2024 with Tammo Diemer, member of the Executive Board of Germany’s Finance Agency:
23 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Germany is highly unlikely to re-enter the inflation-linked bond market after having exited in 2024, according to Tammo Diemer, member of the Executive Board of Germany’s Finance Agency.
23 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said that the ECB was not yet behind the curve, but that the risks of overshooting and undershooting its inflation target were equal.
22 October 2024