By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday said the June monetary policy meeting should be ‘decisive’ and warned against allowing the euro to weaken too much.
16 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will probably agree next month that net asset purchases under the asset purchase programme (APP) should end in July, and might increase official borrowing costs soon thereafter, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Saturday.
14 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Thursday said that it was time for monetary policy to act, lest high inflation cause expectations to disanchor.
12 May 2022
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Wednesday said that inflation was increasingly widespread and that there were further price pressures coming.
11 May 2022
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Wednesday urged caution with respect to the risks associated with the normalisation of monetary policy.
11 May 2022
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Wednesday urged that monetary policy proceed in a predictable manner.
11 May 2022
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde suggested on Wednesday that the ‘some time after’ of the ECB’s forward guidance needed to be defined with precision, but on balance probably just wanted to emphasise the potential imminence of a rate hike once net asset purchases end.
11 May 2022
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Wednesday said he would be in favour of moving faster to ensure that inflation doesn’t take stronger hold.
11 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The war waged by Russia against Ukraine raises questions about the sustainability of the recovery path the economy had been on after emerging from the worst of the pandemic, European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said Wednesday.
11 May 2022
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday reiterated the view that the ECB’s net asset purchases should end early in 3Q, with a first rate hike to follow an indeterminate amount of time thereafter and normalisation to then proceed gradually.
11 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Net asset purchases by the European Central Bank should end in June and be followed by a first rate hike in July, ECB Governing Council member Joachim Nagel reiterated on Wednesday.
11 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said that monetary policy had to normalise in view of accelerating price pressures.
10 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank on the order of 100 basis points should boost the interest burden of Spanish sovereign debt by only 0.4 point in 2024, thanks to relevant trends of recent years, ECB Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Tuesday.
10 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Net asset purchases by the European Central Bank should end in June and be followed by a first rate hike in July, ECB Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Tuesday.
10 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is a reasonably complete compendium of the most recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members with respect to monetary policy. Updates are made on a periodic basis.
9 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – We wrote yesterday that we consider a June end to the European Central Bank’s net asset purchases probable, without ruling out the beginning of July. In the interim, we have grown more confident that these are in fact the choices, and prefer the former.
9 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Saturday steered clear of offering financial markets much new in the way of guidance about the timing with which monetary accommodation would be withdrawn, but neither was she keen to dampen expectations, and her comments on the economy suggested a degree of confidence.
8 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Friday confirmed that a 50-bps rate hike will be on the ECB’s agenda shortly, but gave no indication as to whether he supported a policy move of that size.
8 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – What a change a few weeks can make. On Thursday, European Central Bank Executive Board member Fabio Panetta made substantive comments about the proper course for monetary policy that to some extent could have been uttered by a relatively hawkish member of the ECB’s Governing Council.
5 May 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Tuesday presented a strong case for taking policy action relatively soon, suggesting in particular that net asset purchases could end in June with a first rate hike the following month.
4 May 2022