Monetary policy
ECB Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - Monetary policy decisions, 6 December 2001.
Afghanistan's central banker invited home
AFGHANISTAN - Afghanistan's former central banker has been asked by the leader of the Northern Alliance to return to run the country's monetary policy.
EU won't protest changes at Polish c bank
POLAND - An amendment to Poland's central bank law increasing the size of the bank's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Council, or RPP, shouldn't draw protests from the European Union, Prime Minister Leszek Miller said Friday in an interview on…
Egypt - New central bank role enshrined in law
EGYPT - The cabinet on 27 November approved a new law giving the Central Bank of Egypt greater authority over monetary policy and extending its supervisory role.
South Africa's central bank reduces MPC meetings
SOUTH AFRICA - The South African Reserve Bank is to reduce the frequency of its regular six-weekly monetary policy committee meetings to once every quarter, the bank said Thursday.
Reserve Bank of Australia - Official Media Release
MEDIA RELEASE - Statement by the Governor, Mr Ian MacFarlane - Monetary Policy.
Monetary Policy statement from Sveriges Riksbank
NEWS RELEASE - Repo rate retained unchanged at 3.75 per cent, 5 December.
Speech by Yutaka Yamaguchi of the Bank of Japan
SPEECH - Speech given by Yutaka Yamaguchi, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan at the Economic Seminar of the Japan Research Institute, on 26 November.
Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting
NEWS RELEASE - Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting decisions, 29 November.
SNB Roth - Franc strength likely to be temporary
AUSTRIA - The president of the Swiss National Bank, Jean-Pierre Roth, said Thursday that he expects the franc's current strength to be temporary, and made it clear that the Swiss monetary policy stance may deviate from that of the European Central Bank.
Polish c bank mulls making its debt tradable
POLAND - Poland's central bank may switch its untradable debt into tradable paper, Monetary Policy Council (MPC) member Wieslawa Ziolkowska said on Wednesday.
Speech by Otmar Issing of the ECB
SPEECH - Speech by Professor Otmar Issing, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank at the CEPR/ECB Workshop on issues in the measurement of price indices, Frankfurt, 16 November.
Economics guru warns on UK recession
UK - The threat of inflation in the UK is greater than the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee thinks, according to one of its nine influential members.
Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin - Winter 2001
REPORT - The Quarterly Bulletin provides regular commentary on market developments and UK monetary policy operations. It also contains research and analysis and reports on a wide range of topical economic and financial issues, both domestic and…
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee Minutes
UK - Minutes of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee Meeting held on 7 & 8 November 2001.
Speech by Sushil Wadhwani, Bank of England
SPEECH - Speech by Dr Sushil Wadhwani of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England to the Edinburgh University Economics Society in Edinburgh on 21 November.
BoE's Wadhwani sees UK inflation below 2.5% target
UK - Bank of England monetary policy committee member Sushil Wadhwani said he expects UK inflation to stay below the 2.5 pct official target over the next two years.
EU: Wim mimics Alan, but ECB still far from fed
ARTICLE - European Central Bank president Wim Duisenberg is giving the impression he wants the same level of powerful influence over monetary policy as his counterpart at the Federal Reserve.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem Governor of Norges Bank
SPEECH - Speech by Central Bank Governor Svein Gjedrem of Norges Bank, Norway's central bank, at the conference on EMU and the euro hosted by The European Commission, Euro-Info Centre and NHO (Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry), Oslo, 30…
Central bankers in Ottawa
ECB Council member Ernst Welteke, although saying that monetary policy was appropriate for the eurozone at present, warned of the dangers of money being too loose given the lag for effects to be realised.
November gloom in Japan
Despite leaving monetary policy on hold last week, the Bank of Japan downgraded its assessment of the economy on Monday, expressing concern about the impact of declining exports and output on incomes and consumer spending.
Hayami: Econ ministers didn't discuss BOJ policy
JAPAN - Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami said Wednesday economic ministers didn't discuss monetary policy at a regular meeting earlier in the day.
Monetary policy report from the RBA
REPORT - Statement on Monetary Policy from the Reserve Bank of Australia, November 2001.
Hayami: No talk of monetary policy at econ council
JAPAN - Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami said after a meeting of the government's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on Friday that the council did not discuss monetary policy.