By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday warned whoever was expecting interest rates to be cut soon to be cautious with such speculation.
20 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Wednesday said that the 2024 inflation forecast was a long way from the ECB’s definition of price stability.
20 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday said that the ECB could start cutting interest rates in mid-2024.
20 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A dovish monetary policy combined with fiscal support may have been key to the recovery of US GDP, according to a research bulletin published Tuesday by the European Central Bank.
19 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday said that achieving price stability could be at risk if interest rates were cut too early.
18 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Monday said that it was necessary for inflation to be below 3% in the middle of 2024 for the ECB to cut interest rates.
18 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Monday said that there were still risks to price stability.
18 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Monday said that market expectations of lower interest rates were incompatible with price stability.
18 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Friday said that it was only a question of time for interest rates to be reduced.
15 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Friday said that the ECB was unlikely to increase interest rates again absent any new shocks.
15 December 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday said that the key now was waiting for evidence confirming the sustainability of the ongoing disinflation process.
15 December 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle on Friday said that financial markets’ rate expectations undershot the technical assumptions behind the Eurosystem’s latest projections.
15 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Economic recovery in Germany will happen with a time lag, the German Bundesbank said on Friday in its latest semi-annual forecasts.
15 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday said that changes in interest rates were unlikely in the short term.
15 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Friday said that wage developments remained an open question, despite other inflation indicators being on the right path.
15 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said that interest rates had probably plateaued, but that it was too soon to consider cuts.
15 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that the ECB should not lower its guard on inflation and that holding on to current interest rate levels could be the form of the work still to be done in restoring price stability.
14 December 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde performed much as expected on Thursday at the press conference following the Governing Council’s monetary policy meeting, acknowledging progress and not slamming any doors shut as she tempered her previous almost indignant rejection of early rate cuts and focused instead on the need to collect more data.
14 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank Governing Council on Thursday decided once again to keep its three key interest rates unchanged, a decision that had been anticipated by markets, and to discontinue reinvestments under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) by the end of next year.
14 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday said that euro area citizens were still impacted by inflation and that, despite the recent improvement in inflation figures, consumers were not yet convinced that things had turned around.
12 December 2023 Central Bank News