By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Monday said that the ECB was done or almost done cutting rates.
9 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – If the European Central Bank's baseline scenario is realised, further interest rate cuts may be appropriate, according to ECB Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá on Sunday.
8 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Sunday that the ECB should avoid overreacting to small changes in inflation as it was not doing ‘precision surgery’.
8 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Sunday that the ECB could now take time to consider what to do next.
8 June 2025
By David Barwick – DUBROVNIK, Croatia (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Saturday that the ECB was ‘in a good place’ with respect to inflation.
7 June 2025
By David Barwick – DUBROVNIK, Croatia (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is close to the end of its monetary policy easing cycle, ECB Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said Saturday.
7 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Friday that the ECB might pause its interest rate cuts in July given the lack of new data between now and then.
6 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Friday that ECB interest rates were now at neutral.
6 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said on Friday that the ECB had almost completed its easing phase.
6 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that the ECB had won the battle against inflation.
6 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday praised ECB President Christine Lagarde for saying that the central bank’s easing cycle was almost done.
6 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Friday that interest rates were now in accommodative territory.
6 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Friday that the ECB should take into account the uncertainy about the inflation impact of tariffs in the medium-term.
6 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Friday that it was likely that the ECB’s easing of monetary policy would continue in 2025.
6 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday made clear that the ECB was nearing the final stage of its easing cycle.
5 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – In its June macroeconomic projections, the ECB’s baseline scenario includes the assumption of a 10% U.S. tariff on all countries, including the EU, but does not factor in any retaliatory measures from Europe.
5 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – There was only one attempt during Thursday’s press conference to get European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde to confirm explicitly that euro area monetary policy had reached neutral territory. She demurred, but it didn’t matter, as she managed all the same to convey the idea that the ECB was done or close to it.
5 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council on Thursday decided to cut its key interest rates by 25bp, as widely expected by markets and analysts.
5 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – There’s no point denying the obvious. Even ultra-dovish Banca d’Italia Governor Fabio Panetta acknowledged on Friday that the European Central Bank’s room for further policy easing is narrowing.
3 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – ROME (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Friday offered a blunt indication that the ECB is probably nearing the end of its monetary policy easing cycle, accompanied by indications of openness to doing more.
30 May 2025