Cliff Taylor
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1,456 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Cliff Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think we will see a bit of that hawkish talk from the ECB and we've seen it from other central bank governors.
So I think they're all kind of on the same page now, if you like.
I
in terms of trying to send this message out.
And depending on how things pan out, might we see another interest rate increase in July or September?
We might.
Nonetheless, you'd have to say that
The signing of a deal, if it holds and prices coming down, is good news for interest rates and good news for borrowers in the longer term because the threat of kind of significant increases, you know, is hopefully, would hopefully super off the table.
I would have thought not unless some of the inflation figures in the meantime are very bad.
That said, it does seem, reading between the lines of some of the statements over the last few days, that there is some support on the ECB board from the harder liners to do so.
So we just have to wait and see, I suppose, how that one pans out.
The ECB had been mindful of what happened in 2022 when they were too slow to act.
But some of the wiser heads might be mindful of what happened after the financial crash as well, where they increased interest rates twice and had to reverse fairly pretty quickly in 2011 because the European economy was on the floor.
And the spike in inflation.
That happened post-SAC, yeah.
You know, there's no sense of anything like that at this stage.
The infrastructure one is interesting.
And there were these war... I mean, there's...
The fog of war comes into the equation here.
There were these warnings from Qatar and from some oil energy experts that very significant damage had been done to LNG, liquefied natural gas, infrastructure by the war, and that this would take potentially years to repair.
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