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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. **

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

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

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

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

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

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

In his final keynote speech at the Sintra, Italy, conference on June 18, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi delighted investors in setting a low bar to further stimulus by indicating a willingness to ease if the upcoming

With concerns rising over the potentially increasing downside risks from China, Brexit, and global trade, markets are sniffing for signs of additional accommodative support from the European Central Bank when the Governing

We wish first to congratulate Executive Board Member Peter Praet at this, his last Governing Council meeting, for his remarkable tenure as the Chief Economist of the European Central Bank.

European bank shares popped in the wake of comments from European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and Chief Economist Peter Praet at a conference in Frankfurt last week indicating a

At the European Central Bank’s last Governing Council meeting on January 24, ECB officials, alarmed over a faster and much deeper slowdown than they had been expecting, unanimously agreed to