By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s consumer expectations survey, released Thursday for the fifth time, showed the trend of previous months being bucked as expectations in November of inflation in one year as well as three years ahead declined.
12 January 2023 Central Bank News
- ECB insider: Easier to hike interest rates when labour markets are holding up well
12 January 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Thursday said that official borrowing costs would increase until incipient indications of weaker inflation were confirmed and a return to price stability was ensured.
12 January 2023 Central Bank News
- Slovenia DMO head: 2023 syndications better done sooner rather than later
- Slovenia DMO head: ‘Contemplating a return to the US dollar market’ this year
- Slovenia DMO head: Increase in Slovenian budget deficit shouldn’t make life difficult
- Slovenia DMO head: Unlikely to revisit ultra-long end of yield curve for now
- Slovenia DMO head: Braced for ECB active bond sales
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Wednesday said in effect that ECB monetary policy had arrived at neutrality but that additional rate hikes would probably be needed.
11 January 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – European Central Bank monetary policy was likely around neutral levels, but would have to tighten significantly further into restrictive territory, according to Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Wednesday.
11 January 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank expects to implement further significant monetary policy tightening by hiking at a sustained pace, Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
11 January 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must still hike official borrowing costs significantly and into restrictive territory, according to ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Tuesday.
10 January 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday said the terminal rate would ideally be reached by summer and the ECB would remain there as long as necessary.
5 January 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is likely to hike rates by a large amount in both February and March, according to ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Tuesday.
3 January 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that monetary authorities’ job was not yet finished and that further rate hikes were required.
2 January 2023 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Saturday said that wage growth was likely exceeding expectations and that care had to be taken not to let this become a further source of inflation.
31 December 2022 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday somewhat unenthusiastically recapped recent ECB monetary policy.
30 December 2022 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Sunday said that tighter monetary policy would lead to clearly lower Portuguese inflation soon.
29 December 2022 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank has to continue hiking interest rates in order to ensure a return to price stability, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said Tuesday.
27 December 2022 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Sunday suggested that monetary authorities faced a dilemma in balancing the need to combat inflation with the impact of higher borrowing costs on the economy.
25 December 2022 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will have to take official borrowing costs into restrictive territory in order to get inflation back to a level consistent with price stability, according to ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Saturday.
24 December 2022 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank rate hikes of 50bp may be the standard move over the short term, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said Thursday.
22 December 2022 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Thursday said that he agreed with every ECB rate hike to date in the current hiking cycle and that where the hikes were headed would become clearer once inflation started to subside.
22 December 2022 Central Bank News
- ECB insider: No insistence on QT sequence with respect to TLTRO repayments or rate hikes
- ECB insider: Average €15 billion a month of QT ‘a very good start’
- ECB insider: ‘Most likely’ that all maturing bonds will be treated equally
- ECB insider: In terms of QT, ‘we have not done anything that markets were not expecting’