By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is at no particular risk of falling behind the curve with its monetary policy and needs to avoid the mistake of premature tightening, but if economic developments surprised positively, then it would act faster than now expected, according to ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks.
29 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on July 27 with Gediminas Šimkus, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
28 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The importance of flexibility for the European Central Bank’s pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) does not necessarily mean another asset purchase programme must be endowed with this feature when the PEPP ends, according to ECB Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus.
28 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Thursday’s meeting of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council will be a matter more than anything else of taking a first and important stab at the question of how the new strategy is to shape monetary policy. The answer is less likely to please the hawks, but the doves should take care not to overplay their hand.
20 July 2021
By David Barwick – LJUBLJANA (Econostream) – If the going gets tough for the hawks at the European Central Bank Governing Council’s monetary policy meeting next week, their Slovakian and Slovenian colleagues seem unlikely to come to the rescue.
16 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member and Banca d’Italia Governor Ignazio Visco on Thursday shared his interpretation of the outcome of the ECB’s monetary policy strategy review, an interpretation naturally favouring monetary accommodation but otherwise thoroughly redolent of his traditional diagnoses and prescriptions.
15 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Although both public comments by European Central Bank Governing Council members and the published accounts of their monetary policy meetings had pointed in the last months to a widening rift, ECB President Christine Lagarde has tended to gloss over any discord – until now.
13 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – That the outcome of the European Central Bank’s monetary policy strategy review was a boon to the doves on the Governing Council is clear; comments by ECB President Christine Lagarde over the weekend suggest that the doves could be keen to put their advantage to use at the next opportunity.
12 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The account released Friday of the June 9-10 monetary policy meeting of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council showcased opinions that differed more starkly than at any other recent such gathering, setting the stage for a potentially strident reunion at the next such occasion in ten days.
12 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s comments over the weekend lend credence to the expectation that the ECB will not step on the brakes too quickly even when inflation shows clear signs of revival.
12 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The uniformity with which the European Central Bank Executive Board leans dovish makes member Isabel Schnabel a solitary contrasting voice. Indeed, a closer look at her recent comments side-by-side with those of a dovish colleague reveals considerable differences not far beneath a common surface.
7 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s speech over the weekend represents a tentative but important acknowledgment of the potential for euro area inflation to stage the kind of sustainable recovery monetary policymakers had until now seemed to discount.
5 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Perhaps the central message of the interview published Friday with European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is that in fact there is no new message in need of conveying at the moment, at least not to financial markets, and thus no reason for the ECB to alter its ‘steady hand’ approach.
2 July 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The strong performance of the euro area’s largest national labour market this month raises the stakes for the European Central Bank, suggesting as it does that the missing piece of the medium-term price stability puzzle could conceivably fall into place after all.
30 June 2021
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – The eventual winding down of the European Central Bank’s pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) is not a major concern for the European Investment Bank.
29 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – What a difference a few weeks make. After suggesting in late May that the strength of the economic recovery was no better than as expected and actually not all that robust, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde now seems to be contemplating the positive evolution with eyes wide and jaw slack.
28 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos, assessing the economic recovery on Wednesday, struck perhaps the most positive tone heard to date from the ECB Executive Board.
23 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on June 18 with Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury:
23 June 2021
By David Barwick – Frankfurt (Econostream) – Economic forecasts to be released on June 24 will play a role in determining whether Austria does one or two more syndications in the coming period, according to Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury.
23 June 2021
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Thursday indicated that the September Governing Council meeting might be too soon for the ECB to abandon its current ‘steady hand’ and start beating a retreat from its ultra-accommodative policy stance.
17 June 2021