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Speech by Alfred Broaddus President Richmond Fed
SPEECH - Remarks by J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr., President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, at the Fall Business Forum Luncheon, Lenoir-Rhyne College Business Council, Hickory, NC, 16 October.
Speech by Otmar Issing of the ECB
SPEECH - Speech by Professor Otmar Issing, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank at the German British Forum, London, 17 October.
Georgia's cen bank staff want right to carry arms
GEORGIA - Members of Parliament of Georgia are discussing an issue of allowing some employees of the National Bank of Georgia to carry firearms.
Brazil calls emergency BRR1 billion debt sale
BRAZIL - Brazil's central bank called an emergency sale of short-term, dollar-linked debt early Thursday to try to prop up its sagging currency.
HKMA's Yam - Catastrophe to drop HK$ peg now
HONG KONG - HKMA chief uses strong words to quash talk of de-pegging from US$ in a speech given on Wednesday.
US reports weak economic activity
US - Economic activity was weak across the US in September and the first half of October, as the effects of last month's terrorist attacks compounded the slowdown already in place before 11 September, the Federal Reserve said yesterday, Wednesday.
Hungary's Nat Bank to build new logistics centre
HUNGARY - The National Bank of Hungary plans to build a new logistics centre, also housing the National Mint - Magyar Penzvero - on the outskirts of Budapest or outside the city, the central bank announced on Friday.
RBI protests against faulty telephone directory
INDIA - The Patna unit of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has charged the Patna Telephones of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) with neglecting complaints of telephone consumers, in general, and the RBI, in particular, with regard to errors found…
House likely to delay BI deputy governors decision
INDONESIA - The House of Representatives is likely to delay the appointment of three new Bank Indonesia deputy governors, as legislators will start a month-long recess on Wednesday.
ECB leaves interest rates on hold
EUROPE - The European Central Bank has left interest rates unchanged at 3.75% on Thursday.
Canada cuts rates to lowest level in 40 years
CANADA - The Bank of Canada surprised the markets by cutting interest rates by three-quarters of a point to the lowest level in 40 years on Tuesday.
Canada's Dodge offers little hope for 2002 economy
CANADA - Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge in a speech on Wednesday chipped away at hopes the Canadian economy might recover in 2002 from its current slowdown, a sickly state worsened by the attacks on the United States last month.
European Central Bank - Monetary Policy Decisions
ECB PRESS RELEASE - Monetary policy decisions, 25 October 2001.
Minneapolis Fed's District Economic Survey
REPORT - The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has published its District Economic Survey in its district business newspaper the fedgazette.
The Federal Reserve Beige Book
REPORT - The Federal Reserve published on 24 October its regular Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District known as the Beige Book.
Speech by David Dodge, Governor of Bank of Canada
SPEECH - Remarks by David Dodge, Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce and the Conseil economique du Nouveau-Brunswick, Moncton, New Brunswick, 24 October.
Speech by Joseph Yam, Chief Executive of the HKMA
SPEECH - Speech by Joseph Yam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority at the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers Lunch Talk 24 October.
Speech by Anthony Santomero of Philadelphia Fed
SPEECH - Remarks before the Canadian Association for Business Economics Toronto, Canada, presented by President Santomero of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 15 October.
Euro campaigners point to inward investment fall
UK - Pro-euro campaigners yesterday claimed that exclusion from the single currency was beginning to hit the economy, with the news that Britain's share of European inward investment projects had fallen sharply to 21 per cent in the first half of this…
China central bank says deflation still a problem
CHINA - The threat that deflation will re-emerge continues, as domestic consumption remains weak, a senior central bank official wrote in a weekend article.
Koh Yong Guan to be new MAS managing director
SINGAPORE - Mr Koh Yong Guan, Permanent Secretary for National Development Ministry, will take over from Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam as the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore from Monday.
BOK site flooded with Netizen visitors
SOUTH KOREA - The Bank of Korea (BOK) is drawing more interest in cyberspace, with the BOK reporting that its web site has recorded a monthly average of about 134,000 hits so far this year, twice as much as two years ago.
Schroeder: ECB monetary policy can be improved
GERMANY - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Friday that the European Central Bank's monetary policy could be improved.
Shadow Group tells Fed to end rate cuts
US - In studying the Federal Reserve for six decades, Anna Schwartz has witnessed some of the Fed's most aggressive interest rate reductions, such as those after the Korean War, before Richard Nixon's re-election and during Ronald Reagan's second year of…