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Speech: Pedro Solbes at Euroclear Euro Conference
Pedro Solbes, the Member of the EU Commission Economic and Monetary Affairs, gives a speech to the Euroclear conference titled 'Preparation for the euro cash changeover: state of play and tasks ahead'.
Euro lessens Emu dependence on US - BoF Trichet
Europe's economy has become less dependent on U.S. developments since the launch of the euro in January 1999, Bank of France Governor Jean-Claude Trichet, a member of the European Central Bank's (ECB) Governing Council, said in an interview published Dec…
Welteke-far too soon to signal lower ECB rates
Bundesbank President Ernst Welteke said on Dec 21 Europe was well equipped to withstand an economic slowdown in the United States and that it was far too soon to signal lower interest rates in the euro zone.
Buba's Welteke says ECB rates appropriate now
Bundesbank President Ernst Welteke said on Tuesday that current Eurozone interest rates were appropriate and reiterated that the European Central Bank's monetary policy was not hampering economic growth.
Friedman v. Mundell on exchange rates
Canada's Financial Post asked the two Nobel laureates Milton Friedman and Robert Mundell to participate in an exclusive e-mail debate about each other's views on modern day economics. Below we reprint the debate which was publish in the Financial Post on…
ECB head sees rosy future for euro
The president of the European Central Bank, Wim Duisenberg, has spoken about a turnaround in euro exchange rates for the first time, telling Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun in an interview in Frankfurt that the European currency could keep rising.
Welteke - cannot say yet if euro turned around
Bundesbank President Ernst Welteke on Thursday said he could not tell whether the euro has already turned the corner, adding that the currency's further performance depended on US economic growth.
Irish hoarding of coins poses euro problem
The image of the Irish hoarding their untaxed earnings under the mattress may be apocryphal, but a study published on Monday estimated that as much as I£30m (E38.1m) in coins may be kept in jam jars, glass bottles, biscuit tins even in shoe boxes.
Buba's Stark - US growth slowdown coming true
Bundesbank deputy president Juergen Stark said on Monday he was pleased with the euro's appreciation and said the slowdown in US economic growth appeared to be materialising.
ECB leaves all key interest rates unchanged
The European Central Bank kept all of its three key short-term interest rates unchanged Thursday.The decision was expected by the market, as past rate hikes - already six this year - have yet to feed through into the real economy, and the ECB will want…
Bank of Greece sees lower inflation, wants reforms
Greece's central bank said on Wednesday inflation should drop below 3% in the second half of 2001 but called for faster structural reforms to improve competitiveness once the country enters the Eurozone.
Bbk Zeitler: Continue reforms to reverse weak euro
The euro's current weakness is "completely surmountable" if national governments in the 11-nation euro area continue to press ahead with structural reforms, Bundesbank council member Franz-Christoph Zeitler said Wednesday.
Euro more likely to recover than weaken-BoE's King
Europe's single currency was more likely to recover against other key currencies than to fall further, Mervyn King, deputy governor of the Bank of England, said on Tuesday.
ECB may intervene again - still upward price risks
The European Central Bank is ready to intervene again in foreign exchange markets if it deems it to be necessary, Bundesbank president and ECB governing council member Ernst Welteke said Tueday.
BOE: Joining euro means return to tax and spend
Sir Eddie George, the governor of the Bank of England, said that the government would have to rely more on taxation and spending policy to control the economy if Britain joined the euro.
Economic cooperation between Eurozone and Japan
Sakuya Fujiwara, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, said at a conference that the Japanese economy was on its way to recovery, although significant structural reforms still needed to take place.
Euro weakness must be seen in context - Schioppa
European Central Bank council member Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa on Saturday said that the euro's current weakness needed to be judged in light of historical exaggerations in currency swings.
Target throughput improves; issues remain
While throughput on TARGET payments is improving some banks are still ignoring rules which require them to make payments promptly.
Speech by Antonio Fazio, Governor, Bank of Italy
SPEECH - Speech by Antonio Fazio, Governor of the Bank of Italy at the World Gold Council International Conference "The Euro, the Dollar and Gold" held in Rome on 17 November 2000. The relationship between currencies and gold.
George says euro is substantially undervalued
Bank of England governor Eddie George said in a speech in Paris on Tuesday that the euro is substantially undervalued in terms of the medium-term 'fundamentals'.
Euro dips on Eichel comments
The euro dipped yesterday to its lowest London closing price against the dollar since September's joint central bank intervention. This followed comments by German finance minister Hans Eichel that the lack of policy coordination could lead the euro to…
The euro - a stable anchor for Europe: Liebscher
Dr Klaus Liebscher, governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, gives a speech at a conference in Budapest entitled "Hungarian capital markets: On the verge of convergence".