By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Monday said that the precise timing of the ECB’s first rate cut was not of primary importance but that June was more probable than April.
29 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 25 January, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 19 January .
29 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board members Piero Cipollone, Philip Lane and Isabel Schnabel on Monday said that that the ECB’s new framework for the provision of euro liquidity would contribute to monetary policy transmission and to resilience in the euro area.
29 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Sunday said that the ECB’s interest rates would be reduced in 2024 and that no date was excluded once there was sufficient progress towards the inflation target.
28 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Sunday said that the key development necessary for an interest rate cut was slower wage growth.
28 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Saturday said that monetary policy was effective and inflation was on positive trajectory towards the ECB’s 2% target.
27 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras over the weekend said that monetary policy easing could start after the second quarter, if positive inflation developments continue.
27 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Germany's economy was slightly weaker than expected in December and would likely languish during the first quarter of 2024, the German Bundesbank said on Friday in its latest monthly report.
26 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Friday said that Europe could avoid shocks that could fragment the economy with an ‘effective policy response’.
26 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Friday said that the ECB’s next steps would depend on incoming information, and predicted the continued slowdown of inflation in the near term.
26 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday said that it made sense to expect the ECB to leave interest rates unchanged at the coming Governing Council meetings.
26 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank Governing Council’s monetary policy meeting on Thursday was more or less exactly as predicted by us in this space on Tuesday: uneventful, devoid of surprises, with the need for policy to stay restrictive reconfirmed and talk of rate cuts dismissed as premature.
25 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council on Thursday decided again, as expected, to keep its three key interest rates unchanged.
25 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Wednesday said it was hard to predict for how long monetary policy in the euro area would need to remain restrictive.
24 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – We have a hard time imagining surprises emerging from this week’s European Central Bank Governing Council meeting, the stage having been so well set in the runup to the occasion.
23 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s latest Bank Lending Survey (BLS), released on Tuesday, showed that credit standards for loans to enterprises and households were tighter in the fourth quarter of 2023 and were expected to tighten further in the first quarter of 2024.
23 January 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 14 December, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 08 December .
19 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that new patterns of consumption, trade and inflation were normalisation trends.
19 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that artificial intelligence could play an important role in the progress of capital markets.
18 January 2024
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday said policies must be based on data and evidence.
17 January 2024