By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 02 October with and reviewed on 06 October by Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
7 October 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will probably continue to take similarly-sized rate steps as long as the economic outlook does not worsen even further, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Wednesday.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday that the potential of tokenisation technologies should not be ignored by public authorities, lest the risk of fragmentation emerge.
7 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Hours after our prediction one week ago that the European Central Bank’s Governing Council would cut interest rates in October, ECB President Christine Lagarde dropped what we and others considered a corroboratory hint. For those not fond of her strategic ambiguity, Council member François Villeroy de Galhau has now provided greater clarity.
7 October 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday confirmed that the Governing Council was likely to cut interest rates at its next monetary policy meeting
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Friday that the ECB should consider holding a larger share of EU supranational bonds.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Friday that inflation had surprised positively lately while growth was still subject to downside risks.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Friday declared victory over inflation and pointed to the recent decrease in services inflation.
4 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Wednesday that the Eurozone’s sluggish economy needed another ECB rate cut to avoid undershooting inflation.
2 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that the ECB must not ignore the headwinds to growth and that a return of inflation to the 2% target was now more probable.
2 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on September 26 with Carla Díaz Álvarez de Toledo, director general of the Spanish Treasury.
2 October 2024
- Díaz: Latest syndication had highest demand for inflation-linked bond in euro area
- Díaz: Comfortable with portfolio average life
- Díaz: Won’t adjust issuance programme to short-term changes in interest rates
- Díaz: We try to be very predictable; issuance strategy not opportunistic,
- Díaz: Bond buybacks not part of our regular toolkit
By Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Wednesday that growth had been weaker than expected and that risks remained tilted to the downside.
2 October 2024
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday said that economic growth required risk-taking on the part of banks.
2 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Tuesday that recent inflation data supported the case for an ECB rate cut in October.
1 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that the ECB should only significantly increase its balance sheet under exceptional circumstances.
1 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday that survey data provided important insights for the ECB, citing the inflation shock beginning in 2022 as an example.
1 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that the ECB’s confidence about restoring price stability had strengthened lately and that this would factor into the Governing Council's rate decision in October.
30 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Last Thursday we outlined a path for the European Central Bank’s Governing Council to cut interest rates in October rather than wait until December. Still, an October cut was, we wrote, ‘no given yet, though the odds have clearly risen.’
30 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Friday that the euro area might be very close to the end of high inflation.
27 September 2024