Vitor CONSTANCIO

Type: Person

Name: Vitor CONSTANCIO

Title: Minister - Central Bank Governor (Portugal)

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

ECB cuts rate to record low of 0.5%

The ECB cut its interest rate today for the first time since July 2012 to a record low 0.5%, as the weak performance of European economies combined with falling inflation and record unemployment put the pressure on for additional easing measures.WBP ... [Published WBP Online - May 02 2013]

Entities: European Central Bank, Rate Cut, Inflation, Unemployment, Mario Draghi

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 3 reports

Manufacturing

Europe trades mixed as ECB meets

European shares were seen mixed on Thursday with investors trading cautiously as the European Central Bank is expected to cut the key rate at its policy meeting later in the day.WBP OnlineLondon - European equities were traded variable on Thursday as ... [Published WBP Online - May 02 2013]

Entities: European Central Bank, Manufacturing, PMI, Bratislava

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Inflation low-ECB to cut rates today

The European Central Bank is expected to cut its main interest rate for the first time in 10 months today, driven to act by an economy wallowing in recession and freed to do so by sharply falling inflation.Economic data over the past weeks since ECB President ... [Published Ireland Business World - May 02 2013]

Entities: European Central Bank, Inflation, Mario Draghi, Vitor CONSTANCIO, Howard Archer

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

Mario Draghi

ECB Rate Cut Isn't Guaranteed

The upcoming ECB Interest Rate Decision on May 2nd at 04:45 PST has been rife with speculation of a rate cut. This stems from ECB's Vice President Vitor Constancio reiterating that the ECB stood ready to act and that the central bank still had room to ... [Published Seeking Alpha - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Rate Cut, European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, Forex

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

European Central Bank

Euro area unemployment at record high

The euro-area jobless rate rose to a record in March, increasing pressure on the European Central Bank to take additional measures to boost growth. Photo: Bloomberg. The euro-area jobless rate rose to a record in March, increasing pressure on the European ... [Published Irish Times - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Unemployment, European Central Bank, Jobless Rate

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

ECB’s Constancio Says Bank Health Checks Will Be Vital Challenge

The European Central Bank will thoroughly probe banks’ balance sheets as it prepares to assume oversight powers, seeking to reassure markets of the robustness of euro-area lenders.The assessments, a requirement set out in the law handing the central bank ... [Published Bloomberg - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Vitor CONSTANCIO, European Central Bank, Solvency, Brussels

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 6 reports

European Parliament

ECB interest rates may decline

According to Euronews economists the ECB interest rates may reduce from 0.75 per cent to 0.5 per cent during the ECB meeting next week.Rob Dobson, Senior Economist with business survey firm Markit, commented. Were seeing the eurozone continue to remain ... [Published New Europe - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: European Central Bank, Vitor CONSTANCIO, Eurozone, Rob Dobson, European Parliament

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 2 reports

Investors’ dash for equities ups blue chip firms

Receive daily updates with our mid-morning newsletter THE UK’S top share index hit three-week highs yesterday, with weak German data bolstering expectations of an interest rate cut in the Eurozone and sending investors into equities in search of better ... [Published City A.M. - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: FTSE 100, Premier Asset Management, Simon King

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 5 reports

IMF Urges Pakistan To Take Steps To Stabilize Economy

Spain Q1 Unemployment Rate Increases Further (05 min(s), 43 sec(s) ago)(RTTNews) - Spain's unemployment rate increased further in the first quarter, and exceeded eco ...Full Story»(RTTNews) - Officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who visited ... [Published TradingCharts.com - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: International Monetary Fund, Pakistan, Vitor CONSTANCIO, South Korea

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 2 reports

The Frankfurt veto

AUSTERITY has been under fire from all corners, lately: from IMF reports showing painfully high multipliers on fiscal cuts, to challenges to the Reinhart-Rogoff debt-threshold research, to the European Commission, whose president, Jose Manuel Barroso, ... [Published The Economist - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Vitor CONSTANCIO, José Manuel Barroso, Caveat

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

DJ ECB Constancio: Monetary Policy Will Continue to Be Accommodative

By Frances RobinsonBRUSSELS--Monetary policy can be adjusted to reflect falling rates of inflation, the European Central Bank's deputy governor Vitor Constancio said Wednesday."We are looking 360 degrees to see what we can do and we stand ready to act ... [Published Individual.com - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Vitor CONSTANCIO, Inflation, European Parliament

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 2 reports

More on the ECB rate cut bomb earlier

After doing some digging the news that sunk the euro this morning was from Klaas Knot who is on the ECB governing council and governor of the Dutch central bank , and ECB vice pres Vitor Constancio. The news apparently ? ... [Published Great China Brokerage Ltd - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: European Central Bank, Rate Cut, Bomb

Quotes

Moreover, ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio said on Wednesday in Brussels that "we stand ready to act if economic conditions continue to provide bad news, as unfortunately has been the case in recent data that became available."

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