By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that for the Capital Markets Union (CMU) to help Europe face its challenges, a completely different approach was necessary.
17 November 2023
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – No one should think that monetary policy tightening by the European Central Bank has already reached an end, Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said Thursday.
17 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday said that financial stability could benefit from a macroprudential approach to the non-bank sector.
16 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Thursday said that making progress in implementing financial reforms and responding to new vulnerabilities could improve the resilience of the financial system.
16 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that it would be inappropriate to be triumphant about having avoided risks to financial stability just because some of these hadn’t yet fully materialised.
16 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Wednesday said that inflation would reach the ECB’s 2% target in 2025 but that its further decline would proceed more slowly.
15 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Tuesday called for regulatory and legislative adjustments related to the climate transition to treat private financial institutions the same way as other sectors of the economy.
14 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council members Joaquim Nagel and François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said it was essential to align actions with the inflation target.
14 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said that the results of monetary policy were starting to be visible.
14 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said the ECB felt certain about the restoration of price stability by 2025.
14 November 2023
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 8 November with Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
13 November 2023
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – It is not yet clear that euro area wage growth has peaked, and there remains a danger that large increases in worker pay could further fuel inflation, European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Wednesday.
13 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday said that the ECB’s monetary policy tightening had yet to be fully felt.
13 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Saturday said that challenges emerging from geopolitical tensions, financial system disruption and developments in technology called for a different reaction than before.
11 November 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday ruled out interest rate cuts during the next two quarters.
10 November 2023
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 26 October, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 25 October .
10 November 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said that ensuring a return to price stability meant maintaining appropriately tight monetary policy for sufficiently long.
10 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Thursday said that inaction with regard to fiscal policy rules could unbalance the policy mix and make it more difficult to guarantee price stability.
9 November 2023
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday said that the moment had not yet arrived to start discussing a reduction of ECB interest rates.
9 November 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Thursday said that central bank reserves should ultimately remain considerably larger than they had been up until the crises starting 15 years ago.
9 November 2023