By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The Eurozone economy has reached a trough and will pick up in the summer months, according to European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Tuesday.
12 May 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank is determined to counter fragmentation in the Eurozone and considers its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) ideally suited to the task, ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said Monday.
11 May 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is becoming more and more severe, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Friday.
8 May 2020
By David Barwick – PARIS (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank will probably have to do more to support a return to price stability, ECB Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said Wednesday.
6 May 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – Notwithstanding the current need for monetary policy support, the European Central Bank shouldn’t forget about the need to exit, ECB Governing Council member Jens Weidmann said on Tuesday.
5 May 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank’s exit from its non-standard monetary policy measures is likely to be subject to a very long deferral, Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Saturday.
2 May 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – It is a “basic task” of the European Central Bank to ward off the destabilising threat that spreads can pose, according to ECB Executive Board member Philip Lane on Friday.
1 May 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank will deploy its policy tools to the benefit of any country in need, ECB President Christine Lagarde said Thursday.
30 April 2020
23rd April 2020 By David Barwick – LONDON (EconoStream) – The current priority for monetary policy has to be getting the economy back to the path it was on prior to the pandemic, Gertjan Vlieghe, external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy...
23 April 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank could keep its relaxed collateral rules in place longer than currently planned or modify these, according to the situation, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos and Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said Wednesday.
23 April 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank on Wednesday decided on a series of temporary measures to cushion the impact on collateral eligibility of possible rating downgrades in the aftermath of the pandemic, according to a statement published on the ECB’s website.
22 April 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – Euro area countries must counter the economic fallout from the pandemic with a “strong, symmetric fiscal response,” the only option in the interest of all of them, European Central Bank Executive Board member Fabio Panetta said Tuesday.
21 April 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank will do everything in the scope of its mandate to address the economic fallout from the pandemic, ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Friday.
18 April 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank is not pre-committed to any particular response to a worsening of the current situation, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said in a newspaper interview on Saturday.
18 April 2020
16th April 2020 By David Barwick - FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank is prepared to buy a larger and different mix of assets if the situation warrants it, ECB President Christine Lagarde said Thursday. In a statement at a gathering...
16 April 2020
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (EconoStream) – The European Central Bank is prepared to modify its stance as warranted to support a return to price stability and to ensure the smooth transmission of its monetary policy, ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Thursday.
16 April 2020
16th April 2020 By David Barwick – LONDON (EconoStream) – The Bank of England is prepared to take additional measures to counter the fallout from the pandemic, Silvana Tenreyro, External Member of the BOE’s Monetary Policy Committee, said on Thursday...
16 April 2020
15th April 2020 By David Barwick - PARIS (EconoStream) – Weak euro area inflation in the wake of the pandemic will oblige the European Central Bank to keep official interest rates low and liquidity ample for a long time, Governing Council member François...
15 April 2020
12th April 2020 By David Barwick - MADRID (EconoStream) – The euro area economy will follow something between a V- and a U-shaped trajectory through the pandemic and into a recovery from the third quarter of this year and above all next year, European...
12 April 2020