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RESEARCH - Risk management in the global economy: A review essay by William C. Hunter, Stephen D. Smith.
Nikkei soars ahead of deflation plan
JAPAN - Japan's top economic policy makers are meeting to finalise moves to curb spiralling deflation and stabilise the stock market.
German recession confirmed
GERMANY - The German economy is officially in recession, according to official figures which have confirmed two successive quarters of contraction.
Aide warns over euro politics
UK - One of Chancellor Gordon Brown's closest aides has warned against allowing political pressures to influence the government's approach to the euro.
India's gold jewellery rip-off
FEATURE - Most gold jewellery advertised in India as 22-carat is of a lesser quality, a survey by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has revealed.
Manchester United player joins eurozone collection
FEATURE - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer from Manchester United has teamed up with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on his return from Europe to collect soon-to-be obsolete currency.
Interview with Anne Krueger of the IMF
INTERVIEW - Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Le Monde Economie, 18 February.
Hungarian ctrl bk to coordinate data after glitch
HUNGARY - The National Bank of Hungary and the Central Statistics Office, or KSH, Wednesday signed a pact to harmonize data collection, two days after the central bank revised and more than doubled the 2001 current account deficit.
Eurogroup's Rato supports Trichet as ECB head
FRANCE - Rodrigo Rato, chairman of the group of EU finance ministers, on Thursday said the next president of the European Central Bank should be French and signalled his support to put Bank of France Governor Jean-Claude Trichet in the top job.
Auditing guide on banks
IRELAND - Auditors of banks have been issued with guidance notes to help them decide when they should report matters of concern to the Central Bank. Similar practice notes from the Auditing Practices Board will be issued for the auditing of insurers and…
Polish central bank - Support early euro entry
POLAND - The European Union should encourage new members of the bloc to adopt the euro as their national currency as early as possible, the president of the Polish central bank said Monday.
Speech by Sirkka Hamalainen of the ECB, 25 Feb
SPEECH - In the speech Hamalainen said the euro has been our money for over three years now and that this was long enough to have allowed the single currency to be tested in a fairly wide range of circumstances.
Japan govt looks to great depression for econ fix
ARTICLE - More than a decade of economic stagnation, marked by financial crisis and deflation that brings the economy to its knees. Then, remarkably, a rapid recovery after a debt-buying binge by the central bank.
Roth - Independent Swiss franc an important asset
SWITZERLAND - Swiss National Bank President Jean-Pierre Roth said Tuesday that an independent Swiss franc is an important asset for Switzerland's financial sector.
Survey of Professional Forecasters
RESEARCH - The U.S. economy will rebound sooner rather than later, according to 35 forecasters surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The forecasters expect stronger growth over the next three quarters than they projected in the survey of…
Bank of England News Release
News Release - HM Government Gold Auction Programme: Announcement of Auction, 26 February.
Speech by US Treasury Sec, Paul O'Neill, 25 Feb
SPEECH - Address of US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill before the Chicago Economic Club, Chicago, Illinois, 25 February.
Atlanta Fed's Guynn sees slow-paced U.S. recovery
US - Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Jack Guynn predicted on Monday that the U.S. economy's recovery from recession will be slower than in the past recoveries, with consumer spending and housing unlikely to lend the usual kick.
Speech by Jack Guynn President Atlanta Fed, 25 Feb
SPEECH - Guynn said in the speech titled 'Thoughts on the Economy' that the coming economic recovery will be "a good deal more moderate" than after prior downturns, adding that he sees "considerable uncertainty" about the outlook for business investment…
Swiss SNB sold 9.82 tons of gold in past 10 days
SWITZERLAND - The Swiss National Bank sold around 9.82 metric tons of gold in the 10-day reporting period ended Wednesday, the central bank's regular statistics report showed Thursday.
Padoa-Schioppa- ECB "satisfied" by German promises
ITALY - European Central Bank executive board member Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, in an interview published Friday, said the ECB was "satisfied" with the German government's promises to cut its budget deficit aggressively in an effort to bring it in line with…
Gold loses its shine as banks sell, costs fall
AUSTRALIA - A third of the gold ever mined, or 30,000 tonnes, is stored in central banks around the world. The banks want to lower their reserves in favour of higher yielding investments such as bonds and currency.
Greece needs more structural reforms-cen bank
GREECE - Greece needs to proceed with additional structural reforms in order to boost the economy's competitiveness in the eurozone, the Bank of Greece and The Brookings Institution, said on Monday.
Argentina's Todesca - Ctrl bank has issued ARS350M
ARGENTINA - Argentina's central bank has already printed 350 million pesos of the 3.5 billion ($1=ARS2.025) it said it will print this year, Deputy Economy Minister Jorge Todesca told local media over the weekend.