Tag: “Central Banks”

On the heels of a 10-meeting streak of raising interest rates, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday is expected to take a break and let the U.S. economy catch its breath.

China’s central bank surprised most economists and market participants by cutting a short-term policy interest rate, a sign that officials are increasingly concerned about faltering growth and are stepping up stimulus to boost the recovery.

Ο διοικητής της ΤτΕ, στη συνέντευξη που παραχώρησε στο in, εμφανίζεται εξαιρετικά αισιόδοξος για την ελληνική οικονομία, επιβεβαιώνει ότι σύντομα θα έρθει η επενδυτική βαθμίδα και ότι η Ελλάδα έχει μια μεγάλη ευκαιρία με το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης και τα χρήματα από το ΕΣΠΑ.

Συνέντευξη του διοικητή της Τράπεζας της Ελλάδος φιλοξενεί η Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The International Monetary Fund has yet to see enough banks pulling back on lending that would cause the U.S. Federal Reserve to change course with its rate-hiking cycle.

Financial markets could face a sharp downturn in the event of any further shocks to the global economy, European Central Bank Vice-President Luis de Guindos told CNBC on Wednesday.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said changing the central bank’s policy target to the five-year bond yield, from the current 10-year zone, would be among options if it were to modify its yield curve control (YCC) policy in the future.

Federal Reserve officials were divided at their last meeting over where to go with interest rates, with some members seeing the need for more increases while others expected a slowdown in growth to remove the need to tighten further, minutes released Wednesday showed.

Federal Reserve officials moved unanimously to raise interest rates at the central bank’s policy meeting earlier this month despite significant debate at the time over whether pausing tightening efforts would instead be the more prudent move.

Μειωμένο κατά κατά 117,4 εκατ. ευρώ σε σχέση με το Μάρτιο του 2022 ήταν το έλλειμμα του ισοζυγίου τρεχουσών συναλλαγών το Μάρτιο του 2023, σε σχέση με τον αντίστοιχο μήνα του 2022.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari on Monday said he’s open to holding off on another interest rate hike next month, but cautioned against reading too much into a pause.

Το πρόγραμμα μεταρρυθμίσεων που θα βελτιώσει την ανταγωνιστικότητα και την παραγωγικότητα της οικονομίας καθώς και η επιστροφή σε πρωτογενή πλεονάσματα της τάξης του 2% του ΑΕΠ θα πρέπει να είναι, σύμφωνα με τον διοικητή της Τράπεζας της Ελλάδος Γιάννη Στουρνάρα το πρωταρχικό καθήκον της επόμενης κυβέρνησης.

The European Central Bank needs to keep interest rates high to curb inflation in the medium term, its president Christine Lagarde said on Friday, signalling more monetary tightening.

After more than a year of warnings, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says the U.K. is now experiencing a wage-price spiral despite 12 consecutive central bank interest rate hikes.

The European Central Bank will have to keep raising interest further to bring inflation back to its mid-term goal of 2% though most of the tightening has already been done, ECB’s Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday.

Raphael Bostic, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said Monday he does not expect any interest-rate cuts this year because inflation is likely to be stickier than those in markets believe, and if anything “we may have to go up”.

European Central Bank interest rate hikes are in their final stretch, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos told an Italian newspaper, while warning that higher borrowing costs could put stress on banks’ asset quality, even if indicators so far remain healthy.

Swedish central bank Deputy Governor Per Jansson weighed the need for a bigger hike than the half-percentage point raise adopted by rate-setters at the Riksbank’s most recent meeting in April, he said on Friday.

Αυστηρότερη εποπτεία των ευρωπαϊκών τραπεζών -ειδικά όσων παρουσιάζουν υψηλά υπόλοιπα κόκκινων δανείων- και αυστηρότερες απαιτήσεις στον σχηματισμό προβλέψεων ζητά το Ευρωπαϊκό Ελεγκτικό Συνέδριο από την Ευρωπαϊκή Κεντρική Τράπεζα.