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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Wednesday said that euro area disinflation was proceeding well and that fine-tuning monetary policy was difficult.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 1 November 2024 with Anu Sammallahti, director of finance and acting Head of Division at Finland’s State Treasury:
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Finland expects its debt issuance programme to amount to ‘around €43 billion’ in 2025, according to Anu Sammallahti, director of finance and acting Head of Division at Finland’s State Treasury.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank policymakers are nothing if not apprehensive about the US elections to take place tomorrow, given the potential implications of another Donald Trump presidency.
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With 26 members, the European Central Bank’s Governing Council is inevitably subject to a fair degree of turnover. This year, three new faces appeared on the Council, as governors of the Bank of Spain, the Central Bank of Cyprus and the Central Bank of Malta were all replaced (the latter - for now – officially on a temporary basis).
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – First and foremost, we still stand by the article published here on 18 October, the main point of which was to argue that markets were ‘seeing the European Central Bank Governing Council’s decision on Thursday a tad too strongly through the prism of wishful thinking.’
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Thursday that the impact of rapid interest rate hikes on the banking sector could have been much more adverse.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that persistently sluggish economic growth would undermine the job of monetary policy.
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Thursday said that the ECB should concentrate on weak activity, as this threatened to lead to significant undershooting of the inflation target.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Economic activity in the Eurozone is largely stagnating, according to the Economic Bulletin published by the European Central Bank on Thursday.