Ecb
Mar
16
2024
The abrupt liquidity needs of investment funds, triggered by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, prompted a retrenchment from bond purchases of firms and a withdrawal of short term funds from banks, impacting firm financing costs directly via bond markets, and indirectly via banks… ...more »
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ECB: Monetary policy decisions
Posted in: News
Mar
11
2024
The Governing Council today decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. Since the last Governing Council meeting in January, inflation has declined further. In the latest ECB staff projections, inflation has been revised down, in particular for 2024 which mainly reflects a ...more »
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Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
Posted in: News
Feb
25
2024
On 29 January 2024 the Governing Council approved amendments to the standard questionnaire used in the euro area bank lending survey (BLS)… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/govcdec/otherdec/2024/html/ecb.gc240223~b09bfd5ce7.en.html
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Preserving people’s freedom to use a public means of payment: insights into the digital euro preparation phase
Posted in: News
Feb
17
2024
Introductory statement by Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp240214_1~4bf1ab0319.en.html
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Feb
07
2024
The natural rate of interest, r* (or “r-star”), is defined as the real rate of interest that is neither expansionary nor contractionary… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/economic-bulletin/focus/2024/html/ecb.ebbox202401_07~72edc611d3.en.html
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Results of the December 2023 Survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD)
Posted in: News
Feb
03
2024
Overall credit terms and conditions offered to different counterparty types remained on balance unchanged between September and November 2023, contrasting with the expectations of further tightening expressed in the September 2023 survey… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2024/html/ecb.pr240202~12b22c8c2b.en.html
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Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
Posted in: News
Gen
30
2024
On 18 December 2023 the Governing Council decided that recovery interest would be an appropriate corrective measure to propose to a national central bank (NCB)… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/govcdec/otherdec/2024/html/ecb.gc240126~80908b06b4.en.html
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Interview with Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Federico Fubini
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Gen
22
2024
The first point to make is that there has been progress on inflation in recent months. It is hard to be exact about the role of individual hikes, but of course the September interest rate hike has helped with that… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/inter/date/2024/html/ecb.in240113~63455a0f8c.en.html
Gen
22
2024
Cyber risks have become one of the main issues for global security. The associated annual cost is estimated to exceed $200 billion globally… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp240117~3e839b396f.en.html
Gen
13
2024
Over the past two years, economic developments in the euro area have been shaped by the easing of pandemic-related supply constraints and by the energy price shock in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp240110~cabae85ba4.en.html
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