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The ECB cut interest rates four times last year and investors see another three or four moves in 2025

ECB must be prudent with rate cuts given high uncertainty

The European Central Bank is likely to keep easing policy this year but needs to be cautious as exceptional uncertainty, from a potential global trade war to domestic politics, cloud the outlook, two of the bank's top officials said today.

Business • 15 Jan

Two ECB policymakers said they were more worried about the damage that expected new US trade tariffs would do to economic growth in the euro zone than any impact on inflation

ECB policymakers fear Trump tariff effect on growth

Two top European Central Bank policymakers signalled today they were more worried about the damage that expected new US trade tariffs would do to economic growth in the euro zone than any impact on inflation.

Business • 18 Nov 24

European Central Bank Vice-President Luis de Guindos

ECB to cut interest rates further, De Guindos says

The European Central Bank is on its path to cut interest rates further as recent euro zone data show inflation is on track to reach the bank's 2% goal, its Vice-President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 14 Nov 24

ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said the European Central Bank is hoping for more cross-border bank consolidation

ECB hopes for more cross border bank consolidation

The European Central Bank is hoping for more cross-border bank consolidation to improve the valuation of lenders and efficiency in the sector, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos told Portugal's Expresso in an interview.

Business • 20 Sep 24

New data to help reassess monetary policy stance - ECB

New data and macroeconomic projections will help the European Central Bank to better reassess its monetary policy stance in September, said ECB vice president Luis de Guindos in an interview with Europa Press.

Business • 23 Jul 24

ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said the ECB needs to be cautious after more rate cuts after its expected move in June

ECB should be 'very cautious' about post-June rate cuts

The European Central Bank will cut interest rates in June but needs to be very cautious about subsequent moves and take into account signals from the US Federal Reserves, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said in a newspaper interview today.

Business • 23 Apr 24

ECB clear on June rate cut but views diverge on July

The European Central Bank has made it "crystal clear" that interest rates could be cut in June but has also been firm that policy decisions beyond that remain up in the air, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 18 Apr 24

The central bank governors of Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Greece and Slovakia have all publicly backed a rate cut for June

ECB ready in June to discuss rate cuts, de Guindos says

The European Central Bank will be in position to discuss an interest rate cut in June, Vice President Luis de Guindos said today, joining a long list of policymakers putting the June 6 meeting on the table for a potential start of policy easing.

Business • 19 Mar 24

The ECB will next meet on March 7 when new economic projections are also presented

ECB waiting for data before starting to cut rates

Inflation in the euro zone is expected to fall further but the European Central Bank needs more data before starting to cut interest rates, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 28 Feb 24

Euro zone interest rates have been at a record high since September and ECB policymakers have been pushing back on rate cut talk

ECB needs 'some time' before cutting rates - de Guindos

Euro zone inflation appears to be heading back to 2% but the European Central Bank needs "some time" and more data before it can be comfortable that record-high interest rates have done their job, ECB vice-president Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 14 Feb 24

Any future decisions on euro zone interest rates would have to depend on the reality on the ground, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos said

Inflation data good news but too early to declare a win

Recent inflation data was "good news" and "a positive surprise", but any future decisions on monetary policy would have to depend on the reality on the ground, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 04 Dec 23

ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos says the euro zone's outlook for financial stability is fragile

Outlook for euro zone financial stability 'fragile'

The European Central Bank has warned that the full effect of higher interest rates is yet to be felt in economies across the single currency area.

Business • 22 Nov 23

Euro zone should not ease bank buffers, ECB says

Euro zone economic growth will remain weak in the near term as services and the labour market weaken but nations in the bloc should not free discretionary bank buffers to ease the pain, European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 13 Nov 23

Eurozone economy set to contract or stagnate in Q4

The euro zone's economy is likely to contract slightly or at best stagnate in the fourth quarter, ECB's vice president Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 07 Nov 23

ECB's De Guindos sees inflation slowing down

Inflation is expected to stay on its downward trend in the coming months, the European Central Bank's Vice-President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 09 Oct 23

The ECB has raised interest rates at every meeting over the past year and promised another hike this month

Euro zone price pressures finally easing - de Guindos

Underlying inflation pressures, a key focus for the European Central Bank, are finally easing across the euro zone, but services price growth risks being sticky and keeping price growth high, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 07 Jul 23

ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos has hinted at further interest rate hikes of 25 basis points

ECB nears end of tightening cycle final stretch remains

The European Central Bank has gone through most of its monetary policy tightening to bring inflation back to its medium-term target of 2%, though the cycle is not quite over yet, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 01 Jun 23

The ECB's Vice President Luis de Guindos

ECB to keep raising rates - De Guindos

The European Central Bank will have to keep raising interest further to bring inflation back to its mid-term goal of 2% though most of the tightening has already been done, ECB's Vice President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 18 May 23

The ECB last week eased the pace of its interest rate hikes but stressed that significant tightening remained ahead

ECB might raise rates at current pace for 'a while'

The European Central Bank may raise interest rates at its current pace for a "period of time" to curb inflation, Vice-President Luis de Guindos has said.

Business • 22 Dec 22

The ECB last week eased the pace of its interest rate hikes but stressed significant tightening remained ahead

ECB will hike interest rates further - De Guindos

The European Central Bank will hike interest rates further in the euro zone to combat high inflation, ECB's Vice-President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 19 Dec 22

The ECB is set to keep raising interest rates until it brings inflation down to around its 2% mid-term goal

ECB will keep raising rates despite recession risk

The European Central Bank will keep raising interest rates until it brings inflation down to around its 2% mid-term goal even though the euro zone economy is heading towards recession, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 23 Nov 22

The ECB has been raising interest rates at a record pace

ECB to continue raising rates even as economy suffers

The European Central Bank will continue to raise borrowing costs even as the euro zone economy suffers because letting inflation stay high would be even more painful, two top ECB policymakers said today.

Business • 08 Nov 22

The downside scenario from the ECB's September projections would see the euro area economy shrink by almost 1% next year

Euro zone 'coming closer' to contraction in 2023 - ECB

Uncertainty about Russian energy imports is pushing the euro zone closer towards a contraction in 2023, a senior European Central Bank official said today.

Business • 14 Oct 22

Euro zone banks will have to up provisions - De Guindos

Banks in the euro zone will have to raise provisions to cope with the consequences of the economic slowdown due to the fallout from Russia's war in Ukraine, ECB Vice-president Luis De Guindos said today.

Business • 26 Sep 22

Euro zone inflation soared to 7.4% in March - well above the ECB's 2% target

Euro zone inflation close to peak - ECB vice-president

A surge in euro zone consumer prices, propelled even higher by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, is "very close" to reaching its peak, European Central Bank vice-president Luis de Guindos said today.

Business • 28 Apr 22