By David Barwick and Isabel Teles – TALLINN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Friday said that weak euro area economic activity would help justify further monetary easing at the Governing Council’s upcoming policy meeting.
30 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday said that incoming data were consistent with restoring price stability in a timely manner, but that it was still necessary to remain cautious when considering cutting interest rates.
30 August 2024
- Nagel: ‘Core Inflation, Especially Services Inflation … Is a Matter of Concern for Us’
- Nagel: ‘We Need to Be Careful and Must Not Lower Policy Rates Too Quickly’
- Nagel: ‘Not Yet Fully Through the Period of Heightened Inflation’
- Nagel: ‘Stronger Economic Recovery Could Further Delay the Return to Our Target’
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – ALPBACH, Austria (Econostream) – By the time of the upcoming monetary policy meeting of the European Central Bank Governing Council there would ideally be more positive data available for the ECB’s decision-making, according to Council member Robert Holzmann on Wednesday.
29 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Thursday said that wage deceleration in the euro area boosted the ECB’s confidence in the restoration of price stability.
29 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Tuesday said that the Governing Council’s decision in September would be easy if inflation continued to move according to the projections, which had been the case so far.
27 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Tuesday avoided commenting on whether the ECB would cut interest rates in September but said that he would be comfortable with a less restrictive monetary policy stance if the disinflation process remained on track.
27 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Friday said that an interest rate cut in September was not a done deal.
24 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Saturday said that monetary policy had been successful in fighting inflation but warned that the return to the ECB's 2% price stability target was not guaranteed.
24 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Friday said that the ECB’s next steps were likely to ease monetary policy further.
23 August 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – In his latest intervention, European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks suggested that a return to the ECB’s 2% price stability target next year was a precondition for a September rate cut. Or did he?
23 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s latest consumer expectations survey, released Friday, showed that consumer expectations of inflation one year ahead remained stable for the third month in a row.
23 August 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said late Thursday that he was very willing to consider further easing of ECB monetary policy at the Council meeting on 12 September.
23 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Negotiated wage growth decreased in the euro area in the second quarter of 2024, according to the European Central Bank wage tracker’s latest update on Thursday.
22 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Wednesday said that Europe's reliance on external demand should be rebalanced and called again for a joint fiscal policy.
21 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German economic output is likely to be weak in 3Q 2024, postponing the country's economic recovery, according to the latest monthly report of the Bundesbank, released Tuesday.
20 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Monday said there was a strong case for the ECB to cut interest rates in the September meeting, given downside risks to growth in the euro area.
19 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – In the following, we reproduce European Central Bank Governing Council members’ recent comments communicating their views as to where r*, the neutral level of interest rates, might lie in the euro area.
15 August 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Wednesday said that if confidence in the disinflation process increased, the ECB could continue to cut interest rates, thus bolstering growth.
7 August 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It can be tempting to dismiss the utterances of those European Central Bank Governing Council members who habitually tend to the extremes of hawkishness or dovishness. An exception is worth making for the latest contribution of Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras to the discussion.
2 August 2024