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The Governor of the Bank of Finland, Olli Rehn, said on Monday that the European Central Bank (ECB) needs to continuously review its strategy. “I would consider it a good idea that going forward we would review the ECB’s monetary policy strategy regularly, for instance every five years.”“We have detached …

At its monetary policy meeting held on October 29th, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to leave the interest rates on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility unchanged at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.50%, respectively, as …

Goldman Sachs expects the board of the European Central Bank (ECB) to lower their inflation projections for 2020-2021. This comes in light of the large downside surprise in August inflation and the appreciation of the Euro (EUR). As for inflation expectations for 2022, they are forecasted to remain unchanged. Moreover, …

The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to maintain an accommodative policy amid the COVID-19 crisis, said the bank’s President Christine Lagarde on Monday, Reuters reported. Lagarde further revealed that EUR 590 billion of the EUR 1.35 trillion asset purchase programme have already been allocated to help maintain interest rates …

The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected not to expand emergency stimulus despite the increasing number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, which is set to lead to renewed lockdowns. Nonetheless, the ECB is not expected to expand its bond purchases this month, according to a recent report by Bloomberg. It is …

President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, said on Thursday that financial stability risks are rising in the Eurozone due to an increase in debt levels, Reuters reported. “The euro area economy will continue to be supported by very accommodative monetary and fiscal policies along with an expected …

The European Central Bank is more concerned about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the economy than previously expected, as shown by its September policy meeting minutes released on Thursday, Reuters reported. This indicates possibly more stimulus later this year. “The case was made for keeping a ‘free hand’ …

The European Central Bank said Tuesday that the profitability of the largest banks in the euro area collapsed in Q2 of the year, although banks managed to keep their bad loan balances low. The bank stated in its quarterly statistics that the return on capital in the first half of …

The economic recovery in the euro area remains incomplete, uncertain and uneven, Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), reiterated while delivering her prepared remarks at the EU Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. “In the current environment of elevated uncertainty, the Governing Council will carefully assess all …

Recent remarks by the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, suggested that the appreciation of the Euro (EUR) is putting downward pressure on prices, or in other words not helping achieving the central bank’s inflation targets. Speaking to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly on Monday, Lagarde said that …