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Bullock in 'full solidarity' with Powell

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... the letter with Bullock include Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank on behalf of the ECB Governing Council; Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England; Erik Thedéen, governor of Sveriges Riksbank; Christian Kettel Thomsen ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... out of time to see the fruits of his new stimulative policies before his term expires on October 31. The ECB Governing Council will meet one more time - October 24 - under his leadership. Chances are there'll be no major announcements, especially ...

Chief economist update: ECB to leave no policy tool unturned

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... measures to contain any side effects remain part of our tools." Draghi's statement was later echoed by ECB governing council member Olli Rehn - touted as the next ECB head when Draghi steps down in October - ""We in the Governing Council are ready ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's quick push back on taper speculations, Deutsche Bundesbank president and ECB governing council member Jens Weidmann used his speech at the Ludwig-Erhard Summit in Bavaria to do the same. Like Kuroda, Weidmann's words partly ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... increased by 28.0% year-on-year last month while those in Beijing rose by 18.3%. Eurozone inflation After the ECB governing council met and kept policy unchanged last month, ECB president Mario Draghi remarked that the current policy is working but that ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... markets have been eagerly awaiting (and rubbing their palms at the same time) this meeting - the 3 December ECB Governing Council meeting - ever since the ECB President promised at his 22 October press conference in Malta that, "The degree of monetary ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... June," It's just for the summer.A Then again, maybe not... if you heard what French central bank chief and ECB governing council member Christian Noyer's comment. "The purchase program will continue until the end of September 2016 and beyond if we do ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 19 points at 5,357. Slovak central bank chief and ECB Governing Council member Josef Makuch said the bank was prepared to combat deflationary risks threatening the recovery in the eurozone. ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... days when the debt limit will be reached. The European Central Bank is too. In his Q&A session -- after the ECB Governing Council met and decided not to change monetary policy settings - president Mario Draghi commented that, "...the US budget shutdown ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... May 2009. With Portugal joining Greece and Ireland in the "begging for funding" list just a day before the ECB Governing Council's decision - and the litany of uncertainties still plaguing the global economy - the bank's president Jean-Claude Trichet ...
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