By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday that the ECB should take into consideration the rise in European bond yields if nothing else changes among the variables the ECB monitors.
27 March 2025
- As of today, the stage is set more for another cut rather than for a pause
27 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Thursday that the ECB should considering pausing interest rate cuts in its April meeting.
27 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that the ECB could keep cutting interest rates as long as the baseline scenario was still valid.
27 March 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A tariff of 20% on European exports to the US would likely result in clearly lower German economic growth, with the inflation impact harder to assess, according to Deutsche Bundesbank Board member Fritzi Köhler-Geib on Wednesday.
26 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – LISBON (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 20 March with Mário Centeno, governor of the Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
26 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – LISBON (Econostream) – There is no reason for the European Central Bank to pause interest rate cuts in the April meeting, according to ECB Governing Council member Mário Centeno.
26 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday that there was still more to be done by the ECB in its easing cycle given what macroeconomic indicators and projections were showing.
26 March 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – There is no need to reduce interest rates any further to restore price stability to the euro area, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Wednesday.
26 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday that the ECB could reach 2% interest rates by the summer, which meant up to September.
25 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the outcome of the ECB's April meeting was open.
25 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller said on Tuesday that he would not rule out taking a pause from cutting rates in April in order to evaluate the situation.
25 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Tuesday that he was open with regard to the Council's April policy decision.
25 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Monday that it was difficult to determine whether downside or upside risks prevailed with regards to inflation.
24 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Monday that he was cautious about how the ECB should proceed.
24 March 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following our initial member-by-member review of the European Central Bank Governing Council exactly two weeks ago, it is time to take another look at where policymakers stand regarding the April decision to cut or to pause.
24 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday that the ECB now had more reasons to cut further than in its last monetary policy meeting on March 6.
24 March 2025
By David Barwick – ATHENS (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 20 March with Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
21 March 2025
By David Barwick – ATHENS (Econostream) – All currently available information suggests that another interest rate cut will be appropriate at the European Central Bank’s 17 April monetary policy meeting, but high uncertainty means that no particular outcome can be taken for granted, according to ECB Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras.
21 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Thursday that the direction of inflation was now harder to predict than it had been for a long time.
20 March 2025