Reports Tagged: ECB

September 09, 2021

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank decided today to adjust its fourth quarter 2021 Pandemic Purchase Program bond purchases to a run at a “moderately lower” pace than

August 26, 2021

In the last Governing Meeting on July 22, President Christine Lagarde rolled out a new framework for European Central Bank policy that included a formal commitment to a symmetric 2%

July 22, 2021

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde concluded her post-Governing Council meeting press conference by graciously asking for feedback on the ECB’s new forward guidance on interest rates that was rolled

July 16, 2021

European Central Bank officials were already largely in agreement over the adoption of a formal symmetric inflation target around 2% when they met two weekends ago to discuss the language

June 28, 2021

One of the key objectives of European Central Bank officials as the European recovery takes hold this year is to manage an unwarranted tightening of financial conditions as the data

April 19, 2021

This Thursday’s Governing Council meeting of the European Central Bank will be a low-key affair, with no changes to the ECB’s monetary policy stance. But markets will be parsing President

March 09, 2021

The European Central Bank’s weekly release on Mondays of its PEPP (Pandemic Emergence Purchase Program) bond purchases has been scoured for the last two weeks by traders looking for signs

January 21, 2021

As those who closely follow the European Central Bank and financial markets know by now, the biggest market-moving news by far out of today’s unchanged policy Governing Council meeting was

January 19, 2021

There is little expectation in markets that the European Central Bank will add to the latest round of stimulus measures announced just last December when the Governing Council convenes for

December 03, 2020

European Central Bank officials, led by President Christine Lagarde, have signaled in no uncertain terms that they will be looking to add to the eurozone’s already massive monetary stimulus at

October 23, 2020

The resurgence and spike in COVID cases across Europe over the last couple of weeks has been considerably more severe than expected and has raised the alarm bells at the

September 08, 2020

Expectations for yet another round of easing measures from the European Central Bank have soared since the release of a negative 0.2%  preliminary CPI inflation print for August, that while

June 24, 2020

European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos signaled on June 22 that the ECB was ready to cooperate with German “institutions” to resolve yet another legal challenge to the

June 01, 2020

Markets are certain the European Central Bank Governing Council will “top-off” and extend beyond 2020 its 750 billion-euro Pandemic Emergency Purchasing Program when it convenes this Thursday, June 4. **

May 26, 2020

A host of European Central Bank Governors and Board Members, including Chief Economist Philip Lane and the Banque de France’s Francois Villeroy de Galhau, have assured markets that the ECB

March 05, 2020

When European Central Bank officials meet next Thursday, March 12 — whether in person or through videoconference – President Christine Lagarde will be facing a Board and Governing Council that

September 12, 2019

Despite a high profile resistance campaign led at the last-minute by some of the European Central Bank’s hawks against a new ECB Asset Purchase Program, outgoing ECB President Mario Draghi

September 05, 2019

Since Bank of Finland Governor Olli Rehn delighted markets in mid-August in calling for the European Central Bank to overdeliver on expectations with an “impactful and significant” stimulus package at

July 25, 2019

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and team delivered as expected at today’s Governing Council meeting, down to communication details and to flagging a rate cut in September. Yet the

July 12, 2019

With Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell in effect all but guaranteeing an interest rate cut at the Federal Open Market Committee’s upcoming meeting on July 30-31, markets have in parallel brought forward