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Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... ECB President Mario Draghi's comforting words. Just last night, Super Mario told the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that, "We will maintain a high degree of monetary policy accommodation. In view of ...

Good, bad: all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... soon after the publication and formal presentation to the IMF of William English' (head of the Fed's Division of Monetary Affairs) and David Wilcox's (Fed director of US economic research) research papers. Both argue for the US central bank to maintain ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... Brussels do not want to release the bailout fund until they see these austerity measures legislated. EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn did not mince his words, "It's up to the Greek government by concrete actions -- through legislation ...

Disagreeing to agree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... because European powers-that-be can't agree on where they're taking us. Last Sunday, European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told us that they are close to an agreement and all will be revealed by 23 October. "Dream on" was ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... Street Journal, Donald Kohn, Vincent Reinhart and Brian Madigan - the last three directors of the Fed's powerful monetary affairs division - put the risk of a new economic contraction at between 20% and 40%. Madigan and Kohn said the Fed should consider ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... http://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/a-modest-proposal-version-2-1-for-the-levy-institute-pdf.pdf And of course, there's also the "Vienna initiative" which Olli Rehn, the EU's economic and monetary affairs commissioner prefers and the EU is ...

Troubled Greece to freeze pensions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... income will largely be protected from the lower pension policy. In a joint statement, European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn and IMF's Strauss-Kahn said they recognised the sacrifices that will have to be made by the Greek ...

Debt climbs, home values fall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... consumer debt soaring. However, a report by the Federal Reserve Board's Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs notes, many US families have been saving less and borrowing more against rising home equity, to continue spending beyond their ...

European interest rates to remain steady, ECB chief hints

... real GDP growth in the euro-area," ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet told the European parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee. Although the Frenchman did not give a figure, the ECB has recently forecast the eurozone would see gross domestic ...
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