Central Banks
The Economy in Transition
SPEECH - Remarks by Jack Guynn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Jackson Rotary Club, Jackson, Mississippi, 23 July.
Comments on the Economy and Monetary Policy
SPEECH - Remarks by J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr., President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Washington Association of Money Managers, The Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, DC, 5 June.
A Monetary Policymakers Perspective on the Economy
SPEECH - Presentation to a community leaders luncheon by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President and CEO Robert T. Parry at Kahala Mandarin Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, 14 June.
The euro changeover in the Irish context
SPEECH - Statement by Mr Maurice O'Connell, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, to the Irish Parliamentary Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service, in Dublin on 18 July.
Speech by the Bundesbank's Juergen Stark
SPEECH - Deputy Governor of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Dr. Jurgen Stark, spoke at the International Conference organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Brazilian Institute of Economics - Getulio Vargas Foundation "International financial…
Speech by the Bundesbank's Hermann Remsperger
SPEECH - Address at the Symposium, Hedonic Methods in Price Statistics, Wiesbaden, 21 June, by Professor Hermann Remsperger, Member of the Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. The Evolution of Inflation Measurement: A Central Banker's View.
OFT to become payments systems regulator
UK - Competition watchdog - UK treasury believes new powers will cut £1bn 'excess profits' made by banks.
Why the Bank changed its mind
UK - Mervyn King will have some explaining to do when he presents the Bank of England's inflation report next week writes the FT in London, 3 August.
Myanmar introduces measures to stabilise currency
MYANMAR - Deciding to dine out in Myanmar will no longer be a headache of currency proportions for many diners in the country, reports Channel News Asia.
Argentina's Blejer to become central bank VP
ARGENTINA - Mario Blejer, a former International Monetary Fund economist and top aide to Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo, will become vice president of the country's Central Bank, an official at the monetary authority confirmed on 2 August.
Chicago Fed: Recession risks rising
US - The risk that the U.S. economy is in a recession rose in June to its highest level this year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said on 2 August as it released its monthly index of U.S. economic activity.
Observations on recent economic developments
SPEECH - Address by Mr. T. T. Mboweni, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, Southern African-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 13 July.
Speech by Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
SPEECH - Address by Dr Ishrat Husain, Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, at Mahbul Haq memorial seminar held on 16 July at Islamabad on Pakistan's development challenges.
Surprise cut in UK interest rates
UK - The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has cut interest rates by 0.25%.
Bank of England committee reduces interest rates
UK - Bank of England Reduces Interest Rates by 0.25% to 5.0%
ECB press release - Interest rates unchanged
EUROPE - The European Central Bank has left all its key interest rates unchanged following its governing council meeting this morning.
Speech by Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
SPEECH - Remarks made by Dr Ishrat Husain, Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, as a panelist at the Seminar on Conditionality and Ownership organized by the IMF, World Bank and Commonwealth Secretariat at London on 23-24 July.
Hungary aims to introduce euro in 2006
HUNGARY - The government expects that Hungary will introduce the euro as its currency as of 1 January 2006, Zsigmond Jarai, head of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) said at a business conference on 26 July.
Politician says Koizumi agrees to ask BOJ to ease
JAPAN - Senior ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Hideyuki Aizawa said 1 August he and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi agreed on the need to call for the Bank of Japan to ease further.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem of Norway's central bank
SPEECH - Speech by Central Bank of Norway Governor Svein Gjedrem at The Norwegian School of Management's Centre for Monetary Economics, 7 June.
Reflections on the Capital Goods Overhang
SPEECH - Remarks by Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. before the Charlotte Economics Club, Charlotte, North Carolina, 18 July.
Central Bank of Tunisia - Annual Report 2000
ANNUAL REPORT - The Central Bank of Tunisia has published its Annual Report 2000.
Bank set to defy rate cut calls
UK - The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is widely expected to leave UK interest rates unchanged, despite a mixed picture for the British economy. The MPC began its monthly meeting today, 1 August, and is due to reveal its interest rate…
Hungarian bank says June deficit was misprint
HUNGARY - The National Bank of Hungary said on 1 August that the figure of EUR129.2 million for the June current account deficit, published in its quarterly inflation report 1 August, was a misprint.