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By David Barwick – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Thursday said that higher levels of financial literacy were conducive to monetary policy transmission.
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that the global economy will face further downward revisions for economic growth and upward revisions for inflation in some countries.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 13 March 2025 with Matthew Emde, Director General of Funds Management at the Canadian Department of Finance:
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Canada is not expecting to deliver another USD bond issuance in 2025 after ‘great success’ of the transaction on March 11, according to Matthew Emde, Director General of Funds Management at the Canadian Department of Finance.
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that it was very hard to predict the outcome of the April meeting.
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday that the ECB should take into consideration the rise in European bond yields if nothing else changes among the variables the ECB monitors.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Thursday that the ECB should considering pausing interest rate cuts in its April meeting.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that the ECB could keep cutting interest rates as long as the baseline scenario was still valid.
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A tariff of 20% on European exports to the US would likely result in clearly lower German economic growth, with the inflation impact harder to assess, according to Deutsche Bundesbank Board member Fritzi Köhler-Geib on Wednesday.