By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It is increasingly likely that the European Central Bank will have to increase borrowing costs to the point of being restrictive, and it should start reducing reinvestment of maturing assets once interest rates are at the neutral level, ECB Governing Council member Klaas Knot said Saturday.
15 October 2022
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Saturday called for multiple interest rate hikes to safeguard euro area price stability and for ‘timely’ quantitative tightening.
15 October 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s consumer expectations survey, released Friday for the second time, showed an increase in August in the perception of past inflation, but expectations of future inflation held steady at July’s level.
7 October 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The account of the European Central Bank’s policy meeting of 7-8 September, released by the ECB on Thursday, indicated that a rate hike of 75bp was favoured by a high number of Governing Council members and seen as still leaving monetary policy expansionary.
6 October 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The normalisation of European monetary policy is essential to prevent inflation expectations from disanchoring and elevated core inflation from persisting, according to the Central Bank of Ireland on Wednesday.
5 October 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must continue to hike interest rates, given the likely low levels of medium-term slack in the Eurozone economy, according to ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday.
30 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Thursday indicated that he might support an October rate hike of the same magnitude as the previous hike.
29 September 2022
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday called on fiscal and macroprudential policy to complement monetary policy, and urged that macroprudential policy be tightened somewhat in the context of deteriorating growth prospects.
29 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It is currently more appropriate for monetary policy to apply the principles of frontloading and determination rather than that of gradualism, European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Wednesday.
28 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should hike interest rates next month by at least 50 basis points, according to ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday.
28 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Thursday said that higher interest rates were needed to prevent demand from boosting prices yet further and to anchor inflation expectations.
28 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will only be able to restore price stability if workers accept lower real wages and firms accept reduced profitability, ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane said Tuesday.
27 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said that monetary policy should stick to its price stability course so as to avoid adding yet more uncertainty to financial markets.
27 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Monday argued again that the ECB’s monetary policy enjoyed sufficient credibility to make high real interest rates unnecessary to get inflation back down.
26 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that predominantly upside inflation risks and the threat of a de-anchoring of inflation expectations required additional increases of official borrowing costs.
26 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that the Governing Council intended to continue raising interest rates at its coming meetings even as economic prospects were deteriorating.
26 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should adhere to the principles of gradualism and flexibility in normalising monetary policy, ECB Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras urged on Monday.
26 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will remain extremely vigilant when it comes to inflation expectations, European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Monday.
26 September 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said that while higher borrowing costs would temporarily slow economic growth, monetary policy tightening was unavoidable.
23 September 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 strive to include forward-looking comments made recently enough to be current. Updates are made on a periodic basis.
23 September 2022