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ECB's Villeroy: Trump's trade policies will weaken financial stability and growth
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ECB's Villeroy: Trump's trade policies will weaken financial stability and growth
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2025.04.23 09:55
2025.04.23 09:55
2025.04.23 09:55
European Central Bank member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's trade tirades dampen economic growth, including for the US, and threaten to undermine financial stability, per Bloomberg.
Key quotes
Trump has signed up the whole world to a "lose-lose game" on trade based on flawed economic arguments.
Trump's attack on trade to dampen economic growth, including for the US, and threatens to undermine financial stability.
Villeroy called for de-escalation to avoid a spiral of rising tariffs.
It's more crucial than ever, across the Atlantic, to tell the truth, to fully assess the damage of a trade war, and to open the way for a possible positive dialog.
Market reaction
At the time of press, the EUR/USD pair was down 0.30% on the day at 1.0386.
ECB FAQs
The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, is the reserve bank for the Eurozone. The ECB sets interest rates and manages monetary policy for the region. The ECB primary mandate is to maintain price stability, which means keeping inflation at around 2%. Its primary tool for achieving this is by raising or lowering interest rates. Relatively high interest rates will usually result in a stronger Euro and vice versa. The ECB Governing Council makes monetary policy decisions at meetings held eight times a year. Decisions are made by heads of the Eurozone national banks and six permanent members, including the President of the ECB, Christine Lagarde.
In extreme situations, the European Central Bank can enact a policy tool called Quantitative Easing. QE is the process by which the ECB prints Euros and uses them to buy assets - usually government or corporate bonds - from banks and other financial institutions. QE usually results in a weaker Euro. QE is a last resort when simply lowering interest rates is unlikely to achieve the objective of price stability. The ECB used it during the Great Financial Crisis in 2009-11, in 2015 when inflation remained stubbornly low, as well as during the covid pandemic.
Quantitative tightening (QT) is the reverse of QE. It is undertaken after QE when an economic recovery is underway and inflation starts rising. Whilst in QE the European Central Bank (ECB) purchases government and corporate bonds from financial institutions to provide them with liquidity, in QT the ECB stops buying more bonds, and stops reinvesting the principal maturing on the bonds it already holds. It is usually positive (or bullish) for the Euro.
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