By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Friday said that it was extremely unclear what and when the ECB needed to take monetary policy steps.
8 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will do whatever is needed to prevent inflation from becoming entrenched, ECB Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Friday.
8 April 2022
Exclusive: ECB’s Net Asset Purchases Most Likely to End in July, Official Says
- Official: optionality of September rate hike still open; decision in June at the latest
- Official: inflation showing up in wages is still ‘the missing link at the moment’
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Savers may benefit before long from increased interest rates, European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said late Wednesday.
6 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Fabio Panetta on Wednesday recited his most current litany of reasons why monetary policy tightening shouldn’t be necessary, but his opposition seemed to have weakened and his previous downplaying of high inflation to have given way to a less categorical view.
6 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Wage developments in line with inflation or without regard to productivity would exacerbate the danger of a wage-price spiral, according to the Central Bank of Ireland on Wednesday.
6 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Wednesday said that Russian military aggression against Ukraine had not materially affected euro area financial stability.
6 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Tuesday ventured an initial guess as to when euro area inflation would cease to mount.
5 April 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Almost two weeks after our last review of where each European Central Bank Governing Council member stands on rates lift-off in the current year, we take another look to see whether our informal impression that support for this has been growing stands up to inspection. It does.
5 April 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.
4 April 2022
Exclusive: ECB Touts ‘Gradualism’ to Keep Markets Calm, But Data Will Set the Pace, Econostream Understands
- Official: Some countries still extremely fragile with respect to financial market conditions
- Official: Gradualism needed to make sure that we don’t see market overreaction coming
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Monday spoke out in favour of eliminating negative official borrowing costs by the end of 2022.
4 April 2022
ECB’s Holzmann: Severe Scenario May Be Baseline Now; Could See HICP of 10% or Higher
- Worries inflation of 10% and higher could be coming, with output stagnant or negative
- Suggests that much depends on Chinese willingness to help resolve war
- Initial signs that inflation expectations may be rising
ECB officials saw March HICP forecast as too optimistic, Econostream understands
- Official: Clear already during the meeting that the baseline scenario is too optimistic
- Official: We’re now in one of the other more negative scenarios, not the baseline
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – After having conceded explicitly on Tuesday that, while no given, a first rate hike in 2022 was at least possible, European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Thursday appeared to endorse more generally the gradual normalisation of monetary policy.
31 March 2022
By David Barwick – PARIS (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s monetary policy can be gradually normalised so as to reach a more neutral policy stance, Executive Board member Philip Lane said Thursday.
31 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday reiterated key points pertaining to monetary policy and the economic outlook.
30 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday expressed concern about high rates of inflation and said that the ECB would take all warranted steps in pursuit of price stability.
30 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Rate hikes by the European Central Bank in September and December of this year would be in line with what the ECB has stated, Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Wednesday.
30 March 2022
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Under normal circumstances, one month’s HICP even for the entire Eurozone, let alone for any individual economy, would have few implications for the European Central Bank’s monetary policy.
30 March 2022