Bundesbank President Under Fire from German Politicians
The Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann has been under pressure from European and even American polic...
FOMC Minutes Aug 22
The information reviewed at the July 31-August 1 meeting indicated that economic activity increased ...
Greece Asks for More Time as Junker Visits Athens
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras called for “more time†to carry out policy change...
Yen Traders Comment on BoJ Price Target
Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa, who set the nation's first inflation goal six months ago to ha...
RBA MPC Minutes Aug 7
Members noted that escalating concerns regarding the fiscal and banking problems facing the euro ar...
Buba a Critic of ECB Bond Program
Germany’s Bundesbank stepped up its criticism of the European Central Bank’s plan to e...
Bundesbank Criticizes ECB Bond Plan
Germany’s Bundesbank stepped up its criticism of the European Central Bank’s plan to e...
Japan Current Growth Could Finally End Deflation
Japan's nominal economic growth will exceed real growth for the first time in 16 years next year, th...
Australian Treasury Dismisses AUD Intervention Calls
Australia'sTreasury Department said Friday that intervention in currency markets to depreciate the n...
Bank of China expected to cut Reserve Rate
Expectations on cuts in Reserve Requirement Rates (RRR) in China are rising as the country had s...
Bank of England Releases MPC Minutes
The Bank said it was "encouraging that a number of banks had decided to cut rates on some mortgage a...
BoJ Keep Stands Pat, Cuts Growth
The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday but cut its assessment on exports and outp...
Central Bank Round Up August 8th, 2012
Bank of England The governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King has revised the UK economyâ...
ECB Press Statement
Based on our regular economic and monetary analyses, we decided to keep the key ECB interest rates u...
FOMC Statement Aug 1 2012
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June suggests that economic acti...
Swiss National Bank Records Profit from Currencies and Gold
The Swiss central bank returned to a profit in the second quarter from a year earlier, helped by gai...
Questions Arise for ECB Role in European Crisis
Recent statements by European Central Bank president Mario Draghi and Bank governor Ewald Nowotny ...
Fritz Zurbruegg to join SNB Governing Board
Zurbruegg, 52, leaves his job as head of the federal budget office to join the SNB from August 1, fi...
PBoC intentionally weakens Yuan
Is the PBoC starting to guide the yuan downward outright against the dollar after two years of tryin...
NY Fed Questioned on Bank Regulatory Role
As the Federal Reserve Bank of New York faced criticism for missing a multibillion-dollar trading lo...