Category: Klaas Knot

ECB’s Knot Sees First Interest Rate Hike in 4th Quarter of 2022

AMSTERDAM—Klaas Knot, the Dutch central bank president and a member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council, said on Sunday he expects the ECB to raise interest rates in the fourth quarter of this year. In an interview on Dutch television program Buitenhof, Knot, known as one of the more hawkish members of the ECB’s…


Europe at Risk of Higher Inflation; ECB’S PEPP Should End in March: ECB’s Knot

FRANKFURT—Euro zone inflation could exceed expectations in the short and medium term, and this outlook for price growth warrants an end to the European Central Bank’s emergency bond purchases next March, Dutch central bank chief Klaas Knot said on Thursday. Inflation has surged this year on a long list of one-off developments but a growing…