By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that inflation would return to 2% but that it was uncertain when and that staff macroeconomic projections by themselves could not be relied on.
25 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a compendium of comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members very directly related to monetary policy’s next steps. We only include forward-looking comments made recently enough to be current. Updates are made on a periodic basis.
5 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must and will hike interest rates further to keep elevated inflation from becoming entrenched, according to ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks late Wednesday.
4 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will continue to normalise policy, but will do so on a meeting-to-meeting basis, the ECB said on Thursday, warning again of spreading price pressures.
4 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s consumer expectations survey, released Thursday for the first time, showed increases in June both in the perception of past inflation and in expectations of future inflation.
4 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Although second-round effects in response to more expensive energy have not generally been seen since the common currency’s advent, persistently elevated inflation makes it more likely that these will occur, the European Central Bank said on Wednesday.
3 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It remains unknown when euro area companies will begin to devote the net savings accrued during the pandemic to investment, though there are opportunities in need of considerable funding, the European Central Bank said on Wednesday.
3 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The positive impact on growth and negative impact on inflation of fiscal measures taken by euro area countries in response to Russia’s war of aggression will be felt primarily in the current year, the European Central Bank said on Monday.
2 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Bank of Greece Deputy Governor Christina Papaconstantinou on Monday said that the European Central Bank would need to modify the pace of monetary normalisation if the economy were to slow down significantly.
1 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The 40% rise in the price of oil incorporated in the latest European Central Bank staff projections implies a medium-term loss in Eurozone potential output of approximately 0.8%, the ECB said on Monday.
1 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The nature of savings accumulated during the pandemic is such that this money won’t cushion the impact on consumers of recently more expensive energy, the European Central Bank said on Monday.
1 August 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – As the Eurozone’s economic weakening becomes more apparent, the question of whether or indeed when the ship of monetary policy normalisation might start running out of steam becomes more pressing.
29 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a compendium of comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members very directly related to monetary policy’s next steps. We only include forward-looking comments made recently enough to be current. Updates are made on a periodic basis.
29 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Friday said that pandemic policies should be normalised and that the ECB would strive for price stability on the basis of inflation, notwithstanding slower growth.
29 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a compendium of comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members very directly related to monetary policy’s next steps. We only include forward-looking comments made recently enough to be current. Updates are made on a periodic basis.
28 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ignazio Visco on Thursday did not want to commit to a particular magnitude for the expected ECB interest rate hike in September, but suggested that tightening would continue beyond that month despite the brewing economic storm.
28 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Wednesday suggested that rate cuts might not be in the too-distant future, were Europe to enter recession.
27 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Tuesday said that the ECB should get the deposit rate to 1.5% if no severe recession occurred.
26 July 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday urged a quick end to what he called a ‘still very expansionary’ ECB monetary policy stance.
26 July 2022