Reports Tagged: ECB

September 14, 2023

On Tuesday morning of this week, we flipped our expectations for today’s meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank from a pause to calling — unequivocally —

September 12, 2023

Markets are still favoring a pause and are pricing a European Central Bank rate hike this week at less than even odds. But we are switching our expectations for the

September 01, 2023

Last Wednesday, on the heels of awful eurozone service sector PMI figures, we switched our call for the European Central Bank’s September 14 decision from a 25-basis point rate hike

August 23, 2023

European bond markets rallied this morning after the release of August PMI numbers that showed a deeper than expected slowdown in Eurozone services sector activity, even as the beaten down

July 27, 2023

The European Central Bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points today as expected, bringing its benchmark deposit rate to 3.75%. ECB President Christine Lagarde also made clear, both in

July 18, 2023

This morning, president of the Dutch national bank and European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot put a light under European and global government bond markets with comments that

July 12, 2023

The European Central Bank has continued in its steady march higher on interest rates, taking its benchmark deposit rate from 3.25% to 3.50% at its last monetary policy meeting on

June 15, 2023

The European Central Bank delivered today policy actions that were widely telegraphed and expected by markets, and by us – a 25 basis point rate hike to 3.5% and an

June 12, 2023

The European Central Bank will hike rates by 25 basis points when the Governing Council convenes for its monetary policy meeting this Thursday, June 15, taking its benchmark deposit rate

June 02, 2023

After decelerating at their last Governing Council meeting on May 4 from a 50-basis point pace to a 25-basis point rate hike, taking the benchmark deposit rate to 3.25%, European

May 25, 2023

The European Commission asked all European Union governments on Wednesday to end, this year, all subsidies for energy prices that were introduced last year to deal with price spikes after

May 04, 2023

The European Central Bank today hiked its policy interest rates by 25 basis points, raising its benchmark deposit rate from 3.0% to 3.25%. The ECB also decided today to announce,

April 28, 2023

Over the last two weeks, a number of European Central Bank officials came out in rapid succession with a message that the Governing Council will decide between a 25 and

April 21, 2023

At the March 16 meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, in the heat of the Silicon Valley/Credit Suisse bank crisis, the ECB decided to forge ahead

March 31, 2023

We suspect that no one has ever drawn a direct line between Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, a notable hawk through the course of this inflation

March 16, 2023

In volatile times, the right policy response is to do the right thing, and that includes holding a steady hand. That is exactly what the European Central Bank Governing Council

March 13, 2023

European Central Bank officials, on two key fronts, face a much easier decision than their counterparts at the US Federal Reserve when the Governing Council convenes on Thursday for its

March 03, 2023

Despite a series of problematic national and Eurozone aggregate inflation prints that were just released this week, the overall message from European Central Bank officials in the run-up to the

February 15, 2023

Bank of Spain Governor and European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernandez de Cos, who has distinguished himself as the toughest inflation fighter among his southern European colleagues, warned

February 02, 2023

The European Central Bank hiked all three of its policy interest rates by 50 basis points today, lifting its benchmark deposit rate from 2.0% to 2.5%, as was clearly flagged