By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Friday that the price to be paid for implementing protectionist policies could be very high if these are poorly managed.
14 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – GLASGOW, Scotland (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that climate change could have a very negative inflation effect.
13 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – GLASGOW, Scotland (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that having a solid banking system was paramount in order to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality.
13 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Thursday that the impact of movements in the exchange rate on monetary policy could have increased from levels of the last few decades.
13 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With a March rate cut poised to bring the European Central Bank to within just one more cut of the range it defines as neutral, the ECB may three weeks from today also find the time right to revisit its language.
13 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – With the trauma of the last energy crisis still fresh, the latest price spike for such commodities has European Central Bank Governing Council members vigilant but not yet overly concerned about its implications for inflation.
13 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that the ECB should not be overly optimistic about the next interest rate decision.
12 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that gradualism in setting monetary policy was increasingly called for as the ECB’s easing cycle neared the neutral rate.
12 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) - European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Wednesday avoided attempts to elicit from him any information directly touching on the outlook for coming monetary policy decisions, though he did acknowledge that inflation was converging to the ECB’s target.
12 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Tuesday that the European Union should avoid an escalation with the US in a potential trade war.
11 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Tuesday that the ECB’s interest rate cuts could help deal with a feeble economy but could not remedy structural problems.
11 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday that the inflation outlook could face yet more uncertainty if global trade tensions worsened.
10 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday after US President Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on all imports on steel and aluminium that the European Union should engage in discussion with the US.
10 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Friday that he was not uncomfortable with current market expectations of more cuts, but that the ECB's policy had to emphasise ‘agility’.
7 February 2025
- ECB: r* estimates ‘fraught with measurement and model specification challenges and … highly uncertain’
- ECB: r* estimates ‘cannot be seen as a mechanical gauge of appropriate monetary policy’
- ECB: ‘There is no alternative to taking decisions on the basis of a comprehensive analysis’
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The interview published on Thursday with European Central Bank Executive Board Piero Cipollone suggests that there is a dawning realisation on Frankfurt’s East Side that ECB monetary policy may find itself confronting a new reality sooner than some expected.
7 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said that the ECB would react if the inflation path deviated from reaching the 2% target.
7 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank former and incoming Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Thursday got the approval of Latvia’s Parliament, the Saeima, for a second term at the head of Latvijas Banka.
6 February 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Thursday said that the incoming information since the ECB’s December macroeconomic projections was more or less in line with the current direction of monetary policy.
6 February 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Wednesday that tariffs would have a negative effect in Europe on growth but an uncertain impact in terms of inflation.
5 February 2025