Two key European Central Bank policymakers made the case on Saturday for a cut in the bank's oversized balance sheet, indicating that the next key policy debate will be on how to run down the ECB's ...

At the end of Q1, the ECB wrote up its gold holdings by another €130 billion to €1.00 trillion. The ECB has now shed €2.17 trillion of its loans, with just €24 billion left on its balance sheet, below ...

The European Central Bank remains in rate-cutting mode and could take the policy rate just into accommodative territory. In the background remains a structural tightening trend as the ECB shrinks its ...

FRANKFURT, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's balance sheet needs to be much smaller but cannot shrink back to levels seen in its early years, ECB chief economist Philip Lane said on ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank interest rate cuts should compensate for the tightening impact of the bank's balance sheet runoff, board member Piero Cipollone said on Tuesday, hinting ...

(Reuters) - The European Central Bank will need to expand its balance sheet by around 1 trillion euros (790.62 billion pounds) for a stimulus programme to be effective in boosting inflation, according ...

The European Central Bank’s coming meeting will focus on discussion surrounding quantitative tightening and running down its balance sheet, as well as how much to push back on interest-rate cuts ...

FRANKFURT, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The balance sheet of the European Central Bank and the euro zone's 17 national central banks increased by 28.392 billion euros to 2.351 trillion euros in the week ending ...

The European Central Bank’s Governing Council will probably debate the timing of quantitative tightening at its Oct. 27 meeting, and Bloomberg Economics expects the actual reduction of the balance ...