By Marta Vilar – PARIS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that trade tensions would impact negatively on growth and positively on inflation.
2 April 2025
ECB’s Lagarde: ‘We Are Not Quite at Target Yet. There Is Still a Bit of Work to Do’
2 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that there was a big concern with respect to potential US tariffs because it would represent a change from the current system.
1 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Tuesday that if available data were consistent with the central scenario, the ECB should cut in the April meeting.
1 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Monday that increasing uncertainty meant the ECB should take a cautious approach with respect to interest rate cuts.
31 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday that inflation in the Eurozone was almost at the ECB’s target of 2%.
31 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Friday that he was encouraged by recent data with regards to inflation but warned against being too optimistic.
28 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Friday that the ECB’s baseline scenario could worsen as the situation gets more and more complicated.
28 March 2025
By David Barwick – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Thursday said that higher levels of financial literacy were conducive to monetary policy transmission.
27 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that the global economy will face further downward revisions for economic growth and upward revisions for inflation in some countries.
27 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that it was very hard to predict the outcome of the April meeting.
27 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday that the ECB should take into consideration the rise in European bond yields if nothing else changes among the variables the ECB monitors.
27 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Thursday that the ECB should considering pausing interest rate cuts in its April meeting.
27 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that the ECB could keep cutting interest rates as long as the baseline scenario was still valid.
27 March 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A tariff of 20% on European exports to the US would likely result in clearly lower German economic growth, with the inflation impact harder to assess, according to Deutsche Bundesbank Board member Fritzi Köhler-Geib on Wednesday.
26 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday that there was still more to be done by the ECB in its easing cycle given what macroeconomic indicators and projections were showing.
26 March 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – There is no need to reduce interest rates any further to restore price stability to the euro area, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann on Wednesday.
26 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday that the ECB could reach 2% interest rates by the summer, which meant up to September.
25 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the outcome of the ECB's April meeting was open.
25 March 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller said on Tuesday that he would not rule out taking a pause from cutting rates in April in order to evaluate the situation.
25 March 2025