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Central banks react to eurozone situation
Denmark and Romania lower benchmark rates and Australia lowers growth expectations; all point to continuing eurozone uncertainty as key decision-making factor
Portugal less vulnerable to global price shocks: Bank of Portugal paper
Bank of Portugal study finds the country has one of the lowest price elasticities of external demand in the euro area
Sifi rules will make financial system safer: BIS’s Cecchetti
Bank for International Settlements head of the monetary and economic department Stephen Cecchetti says new Sifi rules will provide positive externalities to entire financial system
Build-up of euro area risks necessitated further stimulus: BoE’s Bean
Bank of England deputy governor Charlie Bean explains Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to restart its quantitative easing programme
Commodity futures help forecast spot prices during periods of turmoil: IMF paper
Fund study shows futures-based forecasts of commodity spot prices still tend to outperform a random walk during periods of volatility
King wants clearly defined bank ring-fence
Bank of England governor Mervyn King says lawmakers must ensure legislation on retail banking ring-fence is clear so regulators can focus on enforcing the new measures
Brazilian politicians take on inflation-targeting mandate
Bill to alter Central Bank of Brazil's inflation target mandate passes Senate Economic Affairs Committee; discussion flares-up as to whether central bank is already employing a mulit-target mandate
Bernanke faces tough questions at press conference
Federal Reserve chairman tackles queries on monetary policy impact, Europe and political pressure; only recently started holding post-FOMC press conferences
BoE data shows Project Merlin on schedule to hit targets
Bank of England’s Trends in Lending shows UK’s five largest banks are on target to meet lending commitments under programme to boost UK financing to businesses
Carney explains Canada-US price gap narrowing
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney discusses drivers of price differentials between the Canadian dollar and US dollar
Argentina crisis lessons for Europe: CEPR paper
Centre for Economic Policy Research study says beleaguered eurozone countries can learn from Argentina’s financial crisis
Precautionary savings not limited to prudent consumers: IMF paper
Fund study finds evidence risk-taking consumers can also generate precautionary savings
Former Kenyan deputy governor passes away
Hezron Nyangito passes away; was replaced as deputy governor of the Central Bank of Kenya last week over concerns for his health
Eurozone leaders hold emergency meeting in Cannes
Greek prime minister George Papandreou is summoned to Cannes for crisis talks ahead of G-20 meetings after receiving the backing of his cabinet to hold a referendum on the eurozone bailout
Religion and culture influence economic preferences: ECB paper
European Central Bank attempts to address long-standing debate between sociologists Karl Marx and Max Weber on causal effect between religion and the economy
Netherlands takes on systemically important banks
Netherlands Bank expresses concern at exposure of Dutch banking sector to sovereign debt crisis; tells systemically important banks to begin preparations to raise capital and build recovery plans
Malaysia’s Aziz emphasises importance of policy co-ordination in Asia
Bank Negara Malaysia governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz says European sovereign debt crisis showed co-ordination between national interests was necessary in Asia
Cleveland Fed paper outlines benefits of new early-warning system
Cleveland Federal Reserve study assesses latest model for developing early-warning systems to highlight build-up of systemic risk
BoE paper identifies large variation in UK price behaviour
Bank of England study shows significant variation in probability of price changes in microeconomic studies into UK consumer price index
IMF stresses importance of central banks’ role in macro-prudential policy use
IMF releases research into macro-prudental tools; stresses importance of central banks’ roles in using policy to fend off financial crises
Canada hires S&P's Beers as special adviser
David Beers to move to Bank of Canada from Standard & Poors; will serve for 18 months as a special adviser to governor Mark Carney
Greece referendum puts eurozone rescue plan in jeopardy
Athens throws spanner in the works with the announcement of a referendum on the eurozone rescue package in January; parliamentary confidence vote also due on Friday
Bank of Canada inflation target mandate set to stay
Governor Mark Carney appears before House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance to explain research done on topic; finance minister confirms inflation targeting to stay
Former Bank of Italy governor sentenced
Antonio Fazio convicted again over rigging sale of Italian banks; jail term will not begin until final level of appeal fails