By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Friday said that the ECB might discuss cutting interest rates in 2024.
1 December 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 26 October, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 25 October .
1 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Friday said that supervisors and banks could not be content and needed to translate rapidly the identification of sector problems into efforts at devising and proposing a solution.
1 December 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Thursday said that it was possible to increase the speed in which the ECB’s balance sheet was reduced.
30 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that monetary policy had benefited from banking supervision in the recent challenging context.
30 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Thursday said that the normalisation of the Eurosystem’s balance sheet must be done carefully to avoid putting price stability at risk.
30 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council is likely to renew at its December monetary policy meeting the discussion of how to reduce the size of the ECB’s balance sheet further, in the view of a Eurosystem insider who spoke to Econostream recently.
30 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – New euro banknotes could have ‘European culture’ or ‘rivers and birds’ as a theme, according to a press release published Wednesday by the European Central Bank.
30 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Wednesday predicted a first rate cut at the mid-2024 mark, conditional on inflation cooperating.
29 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Wednesday said that the ECB’s monetary tightening should be reflected in the interest rates paid on retail deposits so as to help dampen demand.
29 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said that a robust reporting framework would contribute to central banks’ risk-management process.
28 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The extent to which AI-enabled technology has impacted wages and employment in Europe to date is not clear yet, according to a research bulletin published Tuesday by the European Central Bank.
28 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos on Tuesday reaffirmed that any discussion of ECB monetary policy easing in the near term was misplaced.
28 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Constantinos Herodotou on Tuesday said that preliminary indications of moderating wage growth could play a fundamental role in reducing euro area price pressures.
28 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday said that new interest rate increases were not ruled out if inflation did not decrease as expected.
28 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that the ECB expected the disinflationary process to continue but that there was still substantial uncertainty regarding the medium-term outlook.
27 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s next interest rate move is likelier to be a cut than a hike, but it is unreasonable to expect the easing to come soon, in the view of a Eurosystem insider who spoke to Econostream recently.
27 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that the ECB would reassess its bond purchase programmes soon.
27 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 26 October, but earlier comments can still be seen in versions up to that of 25 October .
24 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that the ECB had put a lot of effort into fighting inflation but warned that it was too soon to consider victory over it.
24 November 2023 Central Bank News