By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank needs to hike interest rates beyond March in view of high core inflation, but should reach the terminal rate in the summer, ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Friday.
20 February 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Underlying inflation pressures are likely to remain persistent in the euro area, with wage increases leading to second-round effects on prices, the German Bundesbank said on Monday.
20 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will almost inevitably have to hike interest rates by 50bp next month, when it might provide some indication of its subsequent policy moves, according to ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday.
17 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Friday said that the ECB should hit the terminal rate by the end of September, and left open the size of any rate hikes beyond March’s likely 50bp increase.
17 February 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – BERLIN (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should remain persistent in tackling high inflation, as the effort to restore price stability is far from being finished, Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday.
16 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s monetary tightening has been exerting a clear impact, ECB Executive Board member Philip Lane said Thursday.
16 February 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Wage growth in the euro area has picked up in recent months, with the assumptions underlying the European Central Bank’s December projections being confirmed by the latest developments in the labour market, the ECB said on Thursday.
16 February 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Thursday that policymakers should be aware of the risk of overreacting and that smaller, non-mechanical rate hikes would allow monetary policy to avoid costly mistakes.
16 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Thursday said that the next set of ECB staff macroeconomic forecasts would determine the further course of monetary policy, and that there were indications of an improved outlook on the inflation front.
16 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos’ latest remarks are a reminder that the ECB is not going to hike by 50bp forever and that March, whilst probably not the time to decelerate, could be the right moment for authorities to start giving more consideration to the increasing risks of doing too much too fast.
15 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will be better able to decide how monetary policy should evolve with the benefit of updated inflation forecasts available in March, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
15 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday reiterated word for word the key messages of her post-Council meeting statement earlier this month.
15 February 2023
- Centeno: When we stop hiking, we’ll be confident we’ve done enough for price stability
- Centeno: Don’t see upside risks to inflation, given December forecast revisions
- Centeno: ‘Inflation is going down faster than what we expected in December’
- Centeno: Somewhat uneasy about how fast ECB policy tightening has occurred
- Centeno: Observed euro area average wage increase can’t be considered 2d-round effect
By Xavier D’Arcy – BERLIN (Germany) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Tuesday that he expected rate hikes to continue beyond the March meeting and that he was in favour of taking forceful action against inflation.
14 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a compendium of comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members related to the appropriate pace of upcoming ECB monetary policy tightening. We include only comments made since the December 15 Council meeting.
13 February 2023
FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a compendium of comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members related to the monetary policy relevance of core inflation. We include comments made since the December 15 Council meeting.
13 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Government fiscal measures to offset the blow from high inflation should be targeted, temporary and not distort market signals, lest monetary policy need additional tightening, the European Central Bank said on Monday.
13 February 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Monday that the ECB’s terminal rate should become a lot clearer at its upcoming monetary policy meeting in March.
13 February 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must continue tightening monetary policy, but should proceed slowly and cautiously, without taking unduly large steps and guided by incoming information, ECB Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said on Saturday.
11 February 2023