Monetary Policy

Interview with Russia's central bank chief

INTERVIEW - Interview with Russia's central bank chairman Viktor Gerashchenko at the State Duma Committee for credit organisations and financial markets. Chairman Alexander Shokhin and regional banks association president Alexander Murychev.

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…

Rate cut by Brazil's central bank chief

BRAZIL - Central bank governor Arminio Fraga's surprise move to cut interest rates marks a shift in strategy, and a gamble, as he weighs the need to contain inflation yet entice investors in a presidential election year.

Minutes from 1996 Fed meetings bear out

US - In the months leading up to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's famous 1996 warning of investor "irrational exuberance," then-Fed governor Lawrence Lindsey was the central bank's most vociferous internal proponent of the view that the stock…

Fed wants banks' help with cash - handling

US - The Federal Reserve says its resources are increasingly taxed by banks' growing habit of placing currency on deposit with the central bank, and it plans to call on bankers to figure out a solution to the problem.

Speech by Fed Reserve Governor Ed Gramlich, 20 Feb

SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Consumption and the Wealth Effect: The United States and the United Kingdom' Gramlich said the run-up in household wealth in the late 1990s - in the form of rising stock and home prices - clearly affected consumer spending,…

Speech by David Dodge of Bank of Canada, 20 Feb

SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Canada's Experience with Inflation Targets and a Flexible Exchange Rate: Lessons Learned' Dodge said that both Canada and the global economy seem to have turned the corner, and believed modest growth in Canada would pick up…

Speech by Nobuyuki Nakahara, Bank of Japan, 11 Dec

SPEECH - In the speech titled 'The Japanese Economy and Monetary Policy in a Deflationary Environment' Nakahara said the central bank should take radical monetary steps, including buying 200 billion yen ($1.59 billion) a month of foreign bonds or using…

Tokyo plays down prospect of bank boost

JAPAN - The Japanese government yesterday played down speculation that it was preparing a large capital injection into the wobbly banking system before the end of next month, when a government blanket guarantee on bank deposits will be lifted.

Armenia's c bank chief to take part in seminar

ARMENIA - The head of Armenia's Central Bank Tigran Sargsian today left for London for participation in the seminar "Poverty reduction, growth and debt sustainability in the low-income countries of CIS", which will be held on 21-22 Feb.

ECB PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE - Manual on "Accession countries: balance of payments/ international investment position statistical methods", 20 February.

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