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Argentine central bank moves to cap interest rates
ARGENTINA - Argentina's Central Bank has entered potentially dangerous new territory this week, trying to impose ceilings on the interest rates banks pay depositors.
Buba Welteke: Euro undervalued, dollar overvalued
JAPAN- Deutsche Bundesbank President Ernst Welteke said Wednesday that while foreign exchange rates are decided by the market, the euro is undervalued against the dollar.
Japan's bond market gets the jitters over debt
JAPAN - The Japanese government bond market was hit by a new bout of jitters on Monday as concern rose that the country's debt could soon be downgraded again - and signs emerged that Japanese banks were selling more JGBs.
Shanghai opens gold exchange
CHINA - China's gold markets will reach a milestone today with the low-key opening of a new exchange in Shanghai to trade the precious metal, which has been controlled by a rigid state monopoly for more than five decades.
Thailand may sue ex-central bank chief
THAILAND - Thailand's public prosecutor has recommended suing Rerngchai Marakanond, former central bank governor, for $1.6m ( £1.1m) for exhausting the country's foreign currency reserves in a failed defence of the baht, the trigger for the 1997 Asian…
German regulator may follow US
GERMANY - The integration of European capital markets means Germany's securities regulator will need to model itself increasingly on the US Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Georg Wittich, the German authority's chairman.
IMF in support of bankruptcy plan
UK - The International Monetary Fund's management has thrown its weight behind a radical plan for an international bankruptcy procedure, allowing indebted governments to seek legal protection from their private sector creditors.
Economics guru warns on UK recession
UK - The threat of inflation in the UK is greater than the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee thinks, according to one of its nine influential members.
French strike threat to euro launch
FRANCE - A leading trade union from the French banking sector is planning to call a strike from 2 January.
Speech by David Carse of the HKMA
SPEECH - Speech by David Carse, Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 28 November.
Speech by Anne Krueger of the IMF
SPEECH - Address by Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, given at the National Economists' Club Annual Members' Dinner, American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, 26 November.
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 CEPR/ECB Workshop on issues in the measurement of price indices, Frankfurt, 16 November.
Bank of England Working Paper Series
RESEARCH - Costs of banking system instability: some empirical evidence by Glenn Hoggarth, Ricardo Reis and Victoria Saporta of the Bank of England.
Bank of Canada lowers key policy rate by 0.5%
CANADA - The Bank of Canada today, Tuesday, announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one-half of one percentage point to 2 1/4 per cent.
Bank of Canada Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - Bank of Canada lowers key policy interest rate by 1/2 percentage point to 2 1/4 per cent.
€ Euro - Luck of the Irish thwarted
IRELAND - When David Hickey instructed his bank in Dublin to transfer funds to an account in Spain, he never expected to end up in court, fingerprinted, handcuffed and facing possible criminal charges.
€ Euro - Spaniards await manana
SPAIN - Only 42 per cent of businesses in Spain say they are ready for the euro, according to a survey by the Spanish chambers of commerce published yesterday.
€ Euro - Fears over Thai impostor
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch vending machine industry has raised the alarm about similarities between the new Euros 2 coin and 10 Thai baht, which has been discovered to fit in most machines being prepared for the arrival of the single currency.
€ Euro - Portugal rolls presses again
PORTUGAL - The euro has brought banknote printing back to Portugal for the first time in almost a century. Since the early 1900s, the work had been outsourced, largely to the UK, for reasons of economy of scale. But the Bank of Portugal decided that it…
Luxembourg's secret euro plan
LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg was prepared to break up its monetary union with Belgium at the height of the crisis in Europe's exchange rate mechanism (ERM) in 1993, the country's prime minister has revealed.
€ Euro - French police break up euro strike
FRANCE - French riot police have forced their way into the only mint in the country producing euro coins, after a 10-day strike by workers over pay and conditions.
UK economy closer to eurozone
UK - Britain's economy has become more closely aligned with the eurozone than many countries that are already members, according to the OECD.
Germany 'is already in recession'
GERMANY - A day after news that the US entered a recession in March a leading economic think-tank has said Germany is already in a recession, and things will get worse later this year.
IMF considers sovereign debt protection
US - The International Monetary Fund has unveiled a radical plan to make itself the gatekeeper for a system designed to give heavily-indebted countries bankruptcy protection.