By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Thursday said that the likelihood of a renewed ECB interest rate cut had been diminishing.
16 October 2025
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Wednesday said that the ECB was in a good position from which to maintain its current monetary policy stance while observing the course of economic developments.
16 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that if the ECB were to adjust interest rates again, the move would more likely be down rather than up.
15 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said that there was no reason for moving ECB interest rates and that it was difficult to envision scenarios that would call for a shift in policy.
15 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday suggested that the ECB’s next interest rate move could be up as easily as down, and characterized inflation risks as tilted to the upside.
15 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Wednesday reiterated his view that the euro had a chance to become more important globally.
15 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Tuesday repeated his positive assessment of European monetary policy, growth and inflation and rejected pre-commitment to any evolution of interest rates.
14 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday pushed back against those claiming a rate hike could be the ECB’s next move just as easily as a cut.
14 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Tuesday said that the ECB remained in a good place.
14 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday questioned whether the attractiveness of the US was a permanent feature of the global financial architecture.
14 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said that euro area monetary policy had achieved its purpose and that the inflation picture seemed positive both at present and in the medium term.
14 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Financial markets see euro area interest rates persisting at their current level, European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said Saturday.
11 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday suggested that a significant change in the policy environment would be needed for the ECB to move interest rates.
10 October 2025
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10 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Friday voiced his approval of the ECB’s current monetary policy stance.
10 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that political uncertainty in France is expected to reduce economic growth by around 0.2% of GDP.
10 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Bank for International Settlements on Friday said central banks face major challenges in adopting artificial intelligence, including high costs, cyber vulnerabilities, data governance risks and the need for stronger cooperation to manage technology dependence and talent shortages.
10 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The account of the ECB’s September Governing Council meeting reads like a textbook case for patience: inflation “close to the 2% medium-term target,” risks “on both sides,” and – as in July – “a high option value to waiting for more information.”
9 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – A further rate cut in the coming months could help protect the European Central Bank’s inflation target under both the baseline outlook and adverse scenarios, but upside risks argued for leaving policy rates unchanged, the accounts of the Governing Council’s latest meeting showed Thursday.
9 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Incoming European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira’s insistence that he is “definitely not a dove” invites a natural question: if not a dove, then what? The answer, at least for now, is that the new Banco de Portugal governor’s self-characterization looks more rhetorical than substantive — a positioning move rather than a signal of hawkish conviction.
9 October 2025