By Sergio Goncalves and Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank (ECB) should start bringing down interest rates sooner rather than later, and in small steps rather than…
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The European Central Bank (ECB) will need to see proof of slowing wage growth in the euro zone before interest rates can be lowered, ECB governing council…
(Reuters) – Investor bets for European Central Bank rate cuts are excessive and possibly self defeating because they could actually hold back monetary easing, Dutch central bank chief Klaas Knot…
PARIS (Reuters) – Even though the next move of the European Central Bank (ECB) will likely be an interest rate cut, there is no rush to do this and the…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – It is too early for the European Central Bank to discuss cutting interest rates because inflation remains high, ECB policymaker Joachim Nagel said on Monday. The Bundesbank…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank (ECB) will have key data by June to decide on the first of a likely series of interest rate cuts but going too…
By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) – European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said on Thursday that the ‘hardest and worst bit’ regarding inflation was likely over and that interest…
LISBON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank (ECB) will cut its key interest rates sooner than it recently thought and should not wait until May to make a decision, as…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -European Union laws offer protection to the Polish central bank governor if the incoming government planned to unlawfully prosecute or suspend him, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde…
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation will carry on declining in the months ahead but at a slower pace, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel was quoted as telling Cypriot newspaper Kathimerini…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation is going in the right direction but risks are skewed towards more negative outcomes, so a further rate hike cannot be taken off the…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone inflation pressures are easing as expected but wage growth is still strong and the outlook is especially uncertain, so the European Central Bank’s fight to contain…
VIENNA (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymakers should discuss at their meeting next month whether to wind down bond reinvestments under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme early, Austrian Governor Robert…
MILAN (Reuters) – Euro zone interest rates are close to their peak in the current cycle or may have already reached it, European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel…
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymaker Mario Centeno said on Wednesday he expected macroeconomic conditions would lead to a reversal in the bank’s recent cycle of…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank has time now to assess how inflation unfolds after a record string of rate hikes but victory has not yet been won and…
MADRID (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Monday it was “premature” to talk about the possibility of interest rate cuts or make any forward-looking…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – EU rules to protect the financial system from risks stemming from cryptocurrencies contain a loophole that allows banks to circumvent some safeguards and should be fixed urgently,…
PARIS (Reuters) – Inflation should still land at the European Central Bank’s target of around 2% by 2025 despite the violence in Israel weighing on commodity prices, ECB policymaker Francois…
PARIS (Reuters) -European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said in an interview published on Sunday that she was confident the ECB would meet its target of getting inflation back down…
STRBSKE PLESO, Slovakia (Reuters) – Italy is paying the price for raising its deficit targets via higher borrowing costs, European Central Bank policymaker Klaas Knot said on Friday, telling governments…
(Reuters) – The European Central Bank’s rate hike last month was likely the last although the bank cannot be certain until seeing data available at meetings in December and March,…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Rising wages in the euro zone are keeping up domestic inflation in the euro area but salary growth should moderate in the coming months, European Central Bank…
PARIS (Reuters) – Bank of France head Francois Villeroy de Galhau, a governing council member of the European Central Bank (ECB), said on Saturday that the spike in oil and…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Inflation in the euro zone is not falling “at the desired pace” and it is therefore too early to say whether or not the European Central Bank…