By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German unemployment last month registered a clear decline, according to seasonally adjusted data released on Tuesday by the German Federal Employment Agency.
1 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Sustained and significant rises in yields are not warranted by economic prospects and will have to be countered, European Central Bank Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said Monday.
31 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Consumer prices in Germany accelerated for the fifth month in a row in May, growing at an annualized 2.5%, according to the flash estimate of the German Federal Statistical Office on Monday.
31 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Central banks that target an inflation range are not necessarily likelier to find it harder to anchor expectations than their peers whose inflation targeting relies on another formulation of the inflation objective, according to a European Central Bank working paper published Monday.
31 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The euro area remains mired in crisis, European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Friday.
28 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday effectively adjusted the goal posts defining the limits in time of the ECB’s extraordinary measures.
28 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on May 25 with Teppo Koivisto, director of the Financing Division of Finland’s State Treasury and thus responsible for Finnish public debt management.:
28 May 2021
- ‘We Were Right That We Decided to Revise the Guidance’ on Last Week’s 10-Year RFGB
28 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It needs to be evident to everyone that the European Central Bank is not subordinating monetary policy to fiscal policy, ECB Governing Council member and German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said Thursday.
27 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on May 19 with Davide Iacovoni, director general of the directorate of the Italian Treasury that is responsible for Italy’s public debt management:
27 May 2021
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – A withdrawal of the European Central Bank’s monetary policy support would not be a problem for Italy’s sovereign borrowing once economic growth returns and potential growth is boosted, according to Davide Iacovoni, director general of the directorate of the Italian Treasury responsible for public debt.
27 May 2021
- ‘Would Definitely Say That There Is a Chance for Another BTP Futura Later in the Year’
27 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Fabio Panetta on Wednesday said that yields had recently increased undesirably and that financing conditions were tightening.
26 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – There is no evidence calling for a change in the European Central Bank’s asset purchases under its pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP), ECB Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Tuesday.
25 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German business confidence rose clearly in May as both expectations and assessments of the current situation improved, economic research institute Ifo said on Tuesday.
25 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – German economic output fell a real, seasonally and calendar-adjusted 1.8% on the quarter in the first quarter of 2021, the German Federal Statistical Office announced on Tuesday.
25 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday rejected as ‘pure speculation’ any talk of slowing the pace of asset purchases under the ECB’s pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP).
25 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday called it still far too soon to discuss the possibility of tapering the ECB’s asset purchases.
21 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The June policy meeting of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council appears somewhat less likely to become an inflection point with respect to the degree of monetary accommodation, based on comments Friday by ECB President Christine Lagarde.
21 May 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Inflation in Germany could temporarily hit 4% toward the end of the year, the German Bundesbank said on Friday in its latest monthly bulletin, an increase from recent previous monthly bulletins in which it had only predicted German HICP rates ‘clearly’ above 3%.
21 May 2021