The European Central Bank Governing Council will be considering options for extending its asset purchase program beyond its currently scheduled March 2017 expiration date at its meeting next week: **

Key Takeaways: The European Central Bank will remain firmly in “wait and see” mode at its upcoming monetary policy meeting next week. The ECB will not contemplate any additional ease

With expectations running high and facing a plethora of policy options, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank crafted a package of measures at its meeting today that are

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank will meet a week from today, March 10, to decide if additional easing is necessary, and if so, what measures to adopt.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said today in light of heightened global pressures and the sharp drop in energy prices since its last meeting in December, the ECB “may”

As opposed to performances of late where European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has been relaxed, confident, and even jovial, today he was defensive, curt, evasive, and at time almost

As the European Central Bank approaches its final Governing Council meeting of the year on December 3, financial markets are fully pricing in the announcement of an additional dollop of

Summary: The ECB will not disappoint at its December 3 meeting despite the “assist” from a hawkish Federal Reserve and the lower Euro. Indeed, our sense is of strong consensus to cut the deposit rate  by 0.1%, from -0.2% to

At its last meeting on September 3 the Governing Council of the European Central Bank decided to raise the threshold it had initially set on purchases of individual issues of

The European Central Bank Monetary Policy Committee meeting this Thursday, September 3, will be scrutinized closely as it will include the release of revisions to its Quarterly Staff Economic Forecast

With expectations for some sort of announcement of a sovereign bond purchase quantitative easing program at today’s pivotal European Central Bank Governing Council Meeting soaring since the turn of the

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and his key allies on the ECB Executive Board have spent almost a year clearing the path for a politically controversial sovereign bond purchase

Currencies, bonds, and equity markets are reacting sharply to today’s ECB meeting and subsequent press conference by President Mario Draghi, reflecting a much deeper disappointment on unmet expectations than surveys

European Central Bank officials have made it abundantly clear they are ready to undertake additional easing measures on top of the unconventional measures already taken this year, within the central

Despite continued signs of weakness in the Eurozone economic data, there was little to no expectation for any further action from the European Central Bank Governing Council at today’s monthly

In exactly one week, on Tuesday, October 14, the Court of Justice of the European Union will commence its long-awaited hearing of the legal challenge to the European Central Bank’s

The Euro, already under pressure going into today’s monthly European Central Bank Governing Council meeting, plunged to new lows, and Euribors have rallied sharply, on the back of the decision

There has been little in the way of public commentary on monetary policy from European Central Bank officials since President Mario Draghi spoke on August 22 at Jackson Hole. That

In the past ten weeks or so since the European Central Bank cut interest rates into negative territory and announced a new “TLTRO” liquidity program for banks, the economic data

Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is reported to have stated today that Germany would not demand a permanent vote on the European Central Bank’s Governing Council. His comments received scant