FRANKFURT, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The European Central Bank (ECB) Thursday announced to keep the key interest rates for the euro area unchanged at least through the summer of 2019. The eurozone base interest rate will remain at 0.00 percent, with the marginal lending rate and deposit rate sta...
At its April meeting, the ECB decided to keep the eurozone base interest rate at a flat 0.00 percent, with the marginal lending and deposit rates remaining at 0.25 percent and minus 0.40 percent, respectively.
Our base case is that the main policy rate will be reduced on a quarterly basis until reaching 2-2.25% by the end of 2025. However, the persistent weakness in domestic demand and looming risks to growth—such as the potential for a trade conflict following the US election—could open the...
"[The Governing Council] will follow a data-dependent and meeting-by-meeting approach to determining the appropriate monetary policy stance," the ECB said. ECB policymakers will base their interest rate decisions on the "assessment of the inflation outlook in light of the incoming economic and fin...
That said, our base case is that private consumption will have grown sufficiently by mid-2026 to make the ECB’s most likely policy stance mildly accommodative. Similarly to our 2025 scenarios, however, the risks are to the downside.
"I also hope that tariffs will not come as substantial as they were discussed, because the tie between Mexico and the U.S. is very important, Mexico is a good manufacturing base, also a good market with a population," Hartung told Silvia Amaro on "Street Signs Europe." ...
The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to start lowering interest rates by 0.25 percent on Thursday (6 June). This will reduce the main interest rate from a multi-decade high of four percent down to 3.75 percent, reducing the lending costs for households and businesses, which could resu...
Traders in the world’s largest bond markets are heeding warnings from central banks and winding back bets on aggressive interest-rate cuts this year. European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde added fuel to the selloff, saying in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos...
Consumer-price growth in Europe’s largest economy held at 2.4% — below the 2.6% median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. A moderation in food costs offset energy base effects, according to statistics agency Destatis, and may explain the undershoot. ...
That said, our base case is that private consumption will have grown sufficiently by mid-2026 to make the ECB’s most likely policy stance mildly accommodative. Similarly to our 2025 scenarios, however, the risks are to the downside.