European Central Bank

Indicators on large EU insurance groups (premiums, claims, solvency indicators, profitability indicators, etc.)

ECB’s Revisions in Macroeconomic Projections for the Euro Area, March 2024. Macroeconomic projections aim to predict and understand the future state of the economy on a broad scale. They include information related to economic growth, inflation, wages, unemployment and trade. Eurosystem and ECB staff produce macroeconomic projections that cover the outlook for the euro area and the wider global economy. These contribute to the ECB Governing Council’s assessment of economic developments and risks to price stability.

The statistics for EU Member States published here relate to interest rates for long-term government bonds denominated in national currencies. Where no harmonised long-term government bond yields are available, proxies derived from private sector bond yields or interest rate indicators are presented. The harmonised statistics are used for convergence assessment purposes, as stated in Article 121 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (the Treaty). Specific details are set out in Article 4 of the Protocol on the convergence criteria.

The Main Refinancing Rate or minimum bid rate is the interest rate which banks do have to pay when they borrow money from the ECB. Banks do so when they are short on liquidities.   Euro area (changing composition) - Key interest rate - ECB Main refinancing operations - fixed rate tenders (fixed rate) (date of changes) - Level - Euro, provided by ECB