FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank’s new chief supervisor, Claudia Buch, is a German central banker and scholar whose mild manner belies a willingness to take tough decisions, former…
(Reuters) – The European Central Bank may need to raise interest rates further, Austrian central bank chief Robert Holzmann said on Thursday, just as fresh figures showed euro zone inflation…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The euro zone economy will keep growing in the coming years and is unlikely to experience a deep or sustained recession, European Central Bank chief economist Philip…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European Central Bank board member Fabio Panetta made the case on Thursday for keeping the ECB’s interest rates at their current high level for longer, rather than…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Latest data about economic output in France, Germany and Spain is “quite encouraging” and confirms the European Central Bank’s expectations, ECB President Christine Lagarde said in an…
ATHENS (Reuters) – A further rise in euro zone interest rates in September looked “difficult”, Greek central bank chief Yannis Stournaras said in an interview with a Greek news website…
LISBON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is close to being able to pause the trajectory of rising interest rates so as not to harm the stagnant euro zone economy,…
By Balazs Koranyi SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation is so persistent that interest rate hikes beyond July may still be needed, Slovenian policymaker Bostjan Vasle said, joining a…
PARIS (Reuters) – How long the European Central Bank keeps rates elevated is more important than the actual level, though rates are close to levels needed to get inflation headed…
(Reuters) – The European Central Bank wants lenders to speed up their exit from Russia given the increased reputational, legal and financial risk of doing business there, supervisory chief Andrea…
SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will likely keep raising interest rates after its next meeting even as the economy slows because inflation remains too high, ECB policymaker…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – European Central Bank governing council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Saturday that while some colleagues already feel further interest rate rises will be needed beyond July, he…
ROME (Reuters) – The rapid decline in energy costs should help to tame inflation in Europe, Bank of Italy governor Ignazio Visco said on Saturday, urging companies not to seek…
PARIS (Reuters) – Upcoming interest rate hikes will be marginal, said European Central Bank (ECB) member and Bank of France governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau, who added that rate hikes…
MADRID (Reuters) – The European Central Bank still needs to raise its interest rates further and then leave them in restrictive territory for a while to bring inflation down to…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Central banks around the world have lost a degree of trust and need to rebuild it by explaining their decision making to a wider audience and not…
By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday singled out the rising price of services as his top concern in the ECB’s…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will keep raising borrowing costs until it sees core inflation decline sustainably, ECB board member Isabel Schnabel said on Tuesday, adding market expectations…
(Reuters) – Euro zone inflation will slow sharply this year but price growth momentum remains high for now, including for underlying goods and services, European Central Bank chief economist Philip…
(Reuters) -Economists at UBS expect the benchmark interest rate in the eurozone to peak at 3.75%, while Societe Generale sees it at 4% after the European Central Bank (ECB) signalled…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Euro zone bank regulators should consider tweaking a raft of rules, from how much cash banks should hold to how failing institutions are resolved, in order to…
PARIS (Reuters) – Food price inflation will start easing in the second half of this year, French ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday, saying this is when…
By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The “very generous” pay rise secured by Germany’s public sector workers may complicate the European Central Bank’s fight against inflation, analysts…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank needs to keep raising interest rates even if most of its past hikes have yet to feed through to the economy, as rapid…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Core inflation rates in the euro zone will begin improving in the coming months, but the European Central Bank still has a way to go with monetary…