By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said the central bank had achieved a "soft landing" before the latest Middle East shock, bringing inflation down from around 11% to below 2%.
24 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen said on Thursday the euro area economy had proved considerably more resilient than expected, while warning that risks to the growth outlook remained tilted to the downside and financial stability risks were elevated.
24 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel is set to become the International Monetary Fund’s next Financial Counsellor and Director of its Monetary and Capital Markets Department from January 4, 2027, the IMF said Thursday.
24 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Dimitar Radev said Thursday that vigilance should carry slightly greater weight than patience following the September rate hike but stressed that this did not amount to a call for automatic further tightening.
24 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said Thursday that Lithuanian inflation was set to exceed 6% by year-end, with energy accounting for more than a third of price growth and prolonged high fuel costs increasingly weighing on the economy.
24 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Thursday that the energy price shock was proving to be “much more persistent” than initially expected.
24 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Thursday said it would be preferable to bring inflation back to 2% without further interest rate increases, while stressing that policymakers would reassess the situation at every meeting amid high uncertainty and the Middle East-driven price shock.
24 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane’s extensive and insightful discussion Wednesday of the euro area outlook offered a considerably more dovish assessment than current market pricing might suggest, strengthening the case for December rather than October as the more likely timing of any next rate increase.
24 September 2026
By David Barwick – GENEVA (Econostream) – Following are key comments by European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane from a presentation and question-and-answer session in Geneva on Wednesday. The comments have been lightly edited for clarity.
23 September 2026
By David Barwick – GENEVA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said Wednesday that coming interest-rate decisions could prove less straightforward than September’s 25bp hike, as policymakers weigh a more persistent energy shock against limited second-round effects, stronger-than-expected economic activity and tightening financial conditions.
23 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Wednesday that he supports Bank for International Settlements General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos as a candidate to succeed Christine Lagarde as president of the European Central Bank.
23 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ante Žigman said Wednesday that any further increase in interest rates would depend mainly on the inflation outlook and on energy and refined-product prices, stressing the need to prevent the latest price shock from becoming entrenched.
23 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Wednesday that additional monetary policy action would be needed if persistently high energy prices generated wider inflation pressures, while indicating that this was not happening so far.
23 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Tuesday he was “not so concerned” about a strong wage response to the current inflation shock, as seen during the previous inflationary episode, but cautioned that the longer the shock persisted, the greater the risk was of second-round effects.
22 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that Europe has the economic strength to withstand geoeconomic fragmentation, but needs to deepen its capital markets and reduce strategic dependencies to make better use of its potential.
22 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Tuesday that strong central-bank credibility can reduce the amount of monetary tightening needed after a supply shock and give policymakers valuable time to determine whether inflation pressures will persist.
22 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane's warning that inflation is likely to remain “higher for longer” may sound hawkish in isolation, but his interview published Tuesday appears largely to restate the assessment behind the September 10 rate hike rather than signal a heightened need for another move in October.
22 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Inflation is likely to remain higher for longer as a second wave of energy price increases works through the economy, though there has so far been no broader spillover into other prices, European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said in an interview published Tuesday.
22 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank on Monday said in two press releases that the Eurosystem had launched its Pontes settlement solution for tokenized assets and that the ECB was preparing to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenized securities.
21 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Recent reports on the coming European Central Bank leadership reshuffle have left the outlook strikingly close to the scenario we sketched nearly a year ago: former De Nederlandsche Bank President Klaas Knot succeeding Christine Lagarde as ECB president, with a Frenchwoman — quite possibly Banque de France Second Deputy Governor Agnès Bénassy-Quéré — taking over the chief economist portfolio.
21 September 2026