Monetary Policy
Srejber on monetary policy & inflation-targeting
In the speech 'Should monetary policy subdue inflated high debts and asset prices in an inflation-targeting regime?' given on 28 June Eva Srejber of the Sveriges Riksbank said the Swedish central bank is not hamstrung by its practise of inflation…
Philippines central bank to reduce policy meetings
The central bank of the Philippines has decided to hold its monetary policy-setting meetings every six weeks starting July, instead of every four weeks.
Fed confronts failure to comprehend
According to this article from Bloomberg published Tuesday 27 June, five months into the term of Ben Bernanke at the Fed he and his colleagues haven't figured out how to get financial markets to understand what they are trying to do with monetary policy.
Comment: Bold CBT holds its breath
After another emergency meeting over the weekend the Central Bank of Turkey has raised interest rates by 225 basis points (bp). This has taken interest rates to 17.25%, following an initial hike of 175 bp earlier this month. Will this bold move make any…
Garganas says ECB may aggressively raise rates
European Central Bank council member Nicholas Garganas said in an interview the bank is ready to accelerate the pace of interest-rate increases to counter higher inflation risks in the eurozone.
US monetary policy
The course of U.S. monetary policy is "appropriate" and the country's rate of economic growth should slow in the second half of the year, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Rodrigo Rato said in Madrid.
Korea's Seong-Tae Lee on monetary policy
In the speech 'Monetary policy in an environment of low inflation' given on 16 June Seong-Tae Lee of the Bank of Korea said the emergence of global low inflation is of course a welcome phenomenon for central banks, for whom price stability is the top…
ECB keeping rate options open says Quaden
The European Central Bank is not ruling out the possibility of an interest rate hike in early August, ECB governing council member Guy Quaden was quoted as saying in an interview published Monday 26 June.
David Walton
This Obituary, published Friday 23 June, says that David Walton was a tough-minded economist who capped a brilliant City career with a seat on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
Comment: Vacant BoE MPC seats
Following the sad and unexpected news of the death of David Walton, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, the British Treasury has yet another appointment to make.
Buba's Weber says ECB 'very accommodative'
Bundesbank president Axel Weber said on Friday 23 June that the European Central Bank's monetary policy remains very accommodative despite the June 8 interest rate increase.
Comment: Uganda eyes inflation target
The Bank of Uganda will implement an inflation-targetting framework in the near future, the governor of the central bank, Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, told CentralBankNews.com. Only a lack of adequate and timely data is holding it back.
BOJ members closely watching stock prices
Minutes of the Bank of Japan's recent policy board meeting released Tuesday 20 June said members need to closely watch the impact of a global decline in stock prices on the world's second-largest economy.
Bank of England voted 7-1 to hold rates
Bank of England policymakers voted 7-1 to leave UK interest rates unchanged at their 7-8 June meeting, minutes released Wednesday 21 June showed.
Fed's Kohn on the effects of globalization
In the speech 'The effects of globalization on inflation and their implications for monetary policy' given on 16 June Donald Kohn of the Federal Reserve said cutting U.S. inflation "could be difficult and costly" once it rose.
Paper on European monetary policy
The paper "Is European monetary policy appropriate for the EMU member countries? A counterfactual analysis" analyses whether interest rate paths in the EMU member countries would have been different if the previous national central banks had not handed…
Poole on the role of anecdotal information
In the speech 'The role of anecdotal information in monetary policy' given on 16 June William Poole of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said US policy makers should use anecdotal information to help assess whether higher energy prices are driving…
Letter to the FT from Irma Rosenberg
In a letter published by the Financial Times on Thursday 15 June, Irma Rosenberg of the Swedish Riksbank says inflation targeting as practised by many central banks has undoubtedly been very successful.
Mersch says ECB ready to raise rates again
With inflationary pressures evident in the eurozone, the European Central Bank stands ready to raise interest rates again whenever necessary, Governing Council member Yves Mersch said at the presentation of the Luxembourg central bank's annual report.
BoE's King on monetary policy
In a speech given on 12 June Mervyn King of the Bank of England said global interest rates may have been too low and "too accommodative" for too long, fanning inflation which is now feeding into the U.K. economy.
Nyberg on the Riksbank's monetary policy strategy
In the speech 'The Riksbank's monetary policy strategy' given on 19 May Lars Nyberg of the Sveriges Riksbank said the decision to hold the repo rate unchanged at the most recent monetary policy meeting was not a self-evident decision.
Trichet is right to be nervous about inflation
According to this article by the Financial Times, published Monday 12 June, Jean-Claude Trichet and his ECB colleagues are nervous about inflation and rightly so.
Comment: Hawkish Fed
After a string of speeches by its senior staff this week, the Fed appears to be in an increasingly hawkish mood. The growing perception that that US interest rates will have to rise further could be bolstered by today's release of consumer price data for…
RBI's Reddy says monetary policy 'in sync'
Reserve Bank of India governor Y. V. Reddy said on Saturday 10 June that the recent increase in overnight interest rates was necessary so that India was not "out of sync" with the monetary developments in the world.