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 15 June, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 9 June .
29 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is not considering a pause in its hiking cycle at the moment, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday, noting that there was not enough evidence of a turnround in core inflation to warrant a stop to rate hikes.
28 June 2023
Exclusive: ECB Insiders Reasonably Relaxed About Current Pace of Quantitative Tightening
28 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 27 June with Mário Centeno, Governor of Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
28 June 2023
Exclusive: ECB Should Not Pre-Commit to July Hike, Centeno Says
28 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said on Wednesday that a rate hike in July was reasonable, but that it would be important to look at data before deciding what to do in September.
28 June 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 26 June with Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
28 June 2023
Exclusive: ECB’s Kazāks: In No Hurry to Start Active Sales of Balance Sheet Assets
28 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is confident of achieving a soft landing, though the return to price stability will not be without pain, Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday.
28 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will likely keep the door open to further hikes rather than announce an end to its tightening cycle, due to uncertainty surrounding the persistence of inflation, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday.
27 June 2023
Exclusive: ECB Insiders: July Rate Hike Increasingly Seen as Not Enough
26 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Bank for International Settlements said on Sunday that monetary policy still faced a difficult task in getting inflation under control, with the final phase of disinflation likely to prove the most difficult.
26 June 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Monday reiterated that he would not be surprised if the ECB discussed a further tightening of monetary policy at the September meeting.
26 June 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Sunday said that the end of rate hikes was not far and that whether it would be reached in July depended on incoming information, in particular with respect to underlying inflation.
25 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Saturday that although many of his fellow governors were pushing for hikes in the autumn, he was awaiting further data before making a decision.
24 June 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 15 June, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 9 June .
23 June 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will have to tighten monetary policy again next month, but what happens after that cannot be predicted, ECB Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Friday.
23 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Current Eurozone labour market developments do not constitute a wage-price spiral, though they might slow down the return of inflation to the European Central Bank’s 2% target, ECB Executive Board member Philip Lane said on Friday.
23 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is set to miss its inflation target as things stand, ECB Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday.
22 June 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should be wary not to give up too early in the fight against currently high inflation, even if a side effect of monetary policy tightening is some economic pain, ECB Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday.
21 June 2023