By Marta Vilar – VIENNA (Econostream) – Demand for ultra-long bonds will recover and Austria will then assess the possibility of tapping the market for this ‘opportunistic’ part of the curve, according to Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury.
26 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Wednesday that challenges like multilateralism and geopolitical fragmentation called for international cooperation.
25 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Wednesday said that France's fiscal situation was a problem that needed to be addressed.
25 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The support for wage growth from wage drift is weakening, a factor behind the the recent moderation in euro area wage growth indicators, according to a section of the Economic Bulletin prereleased by the European Central Bank on Wednesday.
25 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Tuesday that the ECB would likely cut rates in the first half of 2025 below 3%.
25 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday said that the transitory nature of some of the reasons for Germany's weak growth meant that the economy would slowly recover.
24 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It remains too soon to express an opinion about what the European Central Bank Governing Council should do at its October monetary policy meeting, Council member Madis Müller said Friday.
24 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Tuesday said that the transmission protection instrument [TPI] was essential to fighting inflation without creating financial tensions.
24 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – José Luis Escrivá took office on Tuesday at the helm of the Bank of Spain, urging that independence and impartiality be strengthened at the institution he now heads.
24 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday that despite inflation being almost at the 2% target, it was not quite defeated yet.
24 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Monday preached the virtues for Europe of a digital euro.
23 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Monday that the ECB would face a risk of inflation resurging if it were to cut interest rates too quickly.
23 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Monday said that it was important to improve initiatives to integrate climate-related risk drivers into credit risk management.
23 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Some of the challenges facing the euro area’s external competitiveness, which have resulted in a gradual decline in its market share in global trade, might persist, according to a section of the Economic Bulletin prereleased by the European Central Bank on Monday.
23 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The historical difference in productivity growth between the euro area and the United States can be attributed to both cyclical and structural components, according to a section of the Economic Bulletin pre-released Monday by the European Central Bank.
23 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde admitted on Friday that the ECB had made a mistake by considering inflation to be transitory after the 2022 energy shock.
20 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that monetary policy frameworks needed be able to adapt to new economic challenges and uncertainty.
20 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Friday indicated that the US Federal Reserve’s decision this week to start cutting interest rates with a 50bp move had not led to significant reactions in terms of exchange rates or rate expectations.
20 September 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Friday said that inflation developments were positive and that the ECB would leave all options open so as to base its next decisions on incoming data.
20 September 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Observers of the European Central Bank who reacted with enthusiasm at the appearance of an interview with a member of its Executive Board – on this occasion Vice President Luis de Guindos, who spoke with Portuguese weekly Expresso – may have felt a tinge of disappointment to find no reference to the most interesting recent development of relevance, namely the US Federal Reserve’s decision two days ago to launch its easing cycle with a surprisingly large 50bp cut.
20 September 2024