By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Thursday said that inaction with regard to fiscal policy rules could unbalance the policy mix and make it more difficult to guarantee price stability.
9 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday said that the moment had not yet arrived to start discussing a reduction of ECB interest rates.
9 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Thursday said that central bank reserves should ultimately remain considerably larger than they had been up until the crises starting 15 years ago.
9 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that the resilience of the European Union would be tested by emerging challenges.
9 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday said that if it there were no more surprises or shocks, the ECB would not raise interest rates further.
9 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday said that new risks were taking the place of risks that were receding.
8 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said that unpopular measures were necessary to achieve price stability.
8 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s consumer expectations survey, released Wednesday, showed that medium expectations of inflation for the next 12 months increased from 3.5% in August to 4% in September.
8 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday suggested that interest rates would be reduced as soon as it became appropriate to do so.
8 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick and Isabel Teles – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Wednesday said that fighting inflation and economic growth were not mutually exclusive.
8 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday vowed that the euro area’s monetary policymakers would restore price stability.
8 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday said that the ECB would keep interest rates at a high level for as long as necessary to bring inflation back to its 2% price stability target.
7 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that despite entering a new phase in November, it could still take years before the digital euro was introduced for regular use.
6 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank Governing Council is unlikely to reach any decisions this year pertaining to the pace of its quantitative tightening, inasmuch as that discussion cannot take place independently of the discussion of its operational framework, Council member Robert Holzmann said Monday.
6 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Saturday said that the ECB’s projections showed inflation converging to the target in 2025.
4 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 .
3 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Friday said that recent data showed inflation converging to the ECB’s target.
3 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Econostream has updated our hawk-dove ranking to take into account the latest change in the composition of the European Central Bank Governing Council, and has also made a few tweaks to other rankings.
3 November 2023 Central Bank News
By Isabel Teles – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel late Thursday said that further interest rate hikes could still be necessary.
3 November 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos on Thursday rejected speculation as to when the ECB might start loosening monetary policy.
2 November 2023 Central Bank News