President Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank Governing Council will have a communications challenge on their hands when they convene this coming Thursday, March 9, for their monetary policy

President Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank Governing Council will have a communications challenge on their hands when they convene this coming Thursday, March 9, for their monetary policy

President Mario Draghi and his colleagues in the European Central Bank Governing Council will make a decision on the contours of the extension of the current 80 billion Euro per

Since hitting their lows in July and again in September, German 10-year bund yields have risen by almost 50 basis points, from negative 0.20 to almost 0.3%. European peripheral bond

European Central Bank Mario Draghi, in his unusually brief post meeting press conference today, delightfully lambasted the “clueless” reporters that have been running with “uninformed” (and vague) reports of a

The ECB would be delighted if there were no market reaction to their Governing Council meeting this week, which is in essence a bridge to a critical policy meeting on

The European Central Bank will absolutely not tinker with the existing Asset Purchase Program (QE) bond purchase program before its scheduled expiration in March 2017. Eurozone services inflation is, if

Initial headlines after today’s Governing Council meeting that the European Central Bank had decided “against” the extension of its bond buying program could not be more misleading and further from

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