Tags: europe
More Central Bank Cuts
May 5th, 2013
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Monetary Policy Week In Review – May 4, 2013: Europe, India Cut Rates, Fed Assures QE Depends On Economyby Peter Nielsen, Central Bank News Last week 11 central banks took policy decisions with six banks keeping rates steady (Angola, Albania, the Unite… more »
Reinhart and Rogoff Respond ... Again
April 26th, 2013
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Econintersect: Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have written another response to the furor that has erupted over the analysis of their paper "Growth in a Time of Debt" which was published in the American Economic Review in May 2010.… more »
Global Interbank Lending Falls to Historical Low in Q4 - BIS
April 25th, 2013
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by Peter Nielsen, Central Bank Newsp> Lending between banks, especially to those in the euro area and the United States, shrank further in the fourth quarter of 2012 while credit to non-banks rose, accelerating the recent trend toward a retreat in i… more »
Do Industrialized Countries Hold the Right Foreign Exchange Reserves?
April 2nd, 2013
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by Linda Goldberg, Cindy E. Hull, and Sarah Stein - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
That central banks should hold foreign currency reserves is a key tenet of the post–Bretton Woods international financial order. But recent growth in the reserve… more »
PSA Peugeot Reports Record Loss
February 14th, 2013
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013 PSA's record loss - Rebound promised PSA Peugeot Citroen, which with 2.8m vehicles sold is last year Europe's second largest automaker, reported a record €5bn group loss in 2012 as sales fell by 5.2% to €55.4bn and sales… more »
