Currency market official comments

focus market
10.05.2012 - 07:25

GERMANY Merkel: EMU debt crisis in focus at G8 Summit

  • Won't be one big bang solution for debt crisis

  • Solving EMU debt crisis will be long, painful path

09.05.2012 - 13:41

Germany finmin Schaueble: “Greece needs strong government”

 

  • hope Greece honours its aid commitments;

  • Greece cannot be forced to stay in the euro.
03.05.2012 - 12:49

ECB Draghi: “All nonstand temporary”

  • global recovery is proceeding
  • EMU econ to recover gradually in course of year
  • very low int rates,global demand to help emu econ
  • further commod price hikes also main downside risk
03.05.2012 - 12:43

ECB Draghi: “Infl rates likely to stay above 2% in 2012”

  • stabilization of econ activity at low level
  • prevailing uncertainty
  • econ activity to recover gradually over 2012
  • infl expectations still firmly anchored
25.04.2012 - 08:10

ECB Draghi: Recent indicators confirm econ stabilization;low levels

 

  • Data are mixed, highlight prevailing uncertainty

  • Growth to be supported by foreign demand, low rates
  • Downside growth risks related to sov. debt crisis
  • Infl. likely to stay above 2% this year due to oil
  • Gov. council expects infl. to fall below 2% in 2013
  • Underlying price pressures should remain modest
  • Risks to price stability broadly balanced
  • Upside risks to infl. from energy, indirect taxes

 

12.04.2012 - 12:25

Fed’s Dudley: “US recovery maybe finding a somewhat firmer footing”

 

  • despite upbeat economic data dampened by the March non-farm payrolls;

  • feels  the weaker  labour market data is transitory, productivity may have recently slumped;
  • too soon to say that the US economy is out of the woods;
  • expects Q1 2012 GDP growth to be 2.25%;
  • sees overall inflation moderating later in 2012;
  • 8.2% unemployment is still unacceptably high.
04.04.2012 - 12:40

ECB Draghi: “Latest info confirms our previous assessment”

 

  • infl likely to stay above 2% 2012; upside risks

  • moderate recov expected in course of year; downsid risk
  • measures have contributed to financial stabilization
  • all nonstand measures temporary
03.04.2012 - 12:39

China Premier Wen Jiabao says key econ data are slowing

30.03.2012 - 10:42

ECB, Constancio: “Slow lending is due to demand not supply”

 

  • credit supply restrictions are not biting now

  • confident 3-year ltros will prevent credit crunch

 

29.03.2012 - 11:08

ECB, Knot: “Little room for further monetary policy easing”

 

  • it's clear that current monetary policy is expansive;

  • worry about the amount of liquidity in the market;
  • inflation not the biggest risk at the moment;
  • future monetary policy depends on course of debt crisis;
  • focus of monetary policy must be price stability in EMU as a whole;
  • ECB nonstandard measures can only buy time;
  • ECB measures have eased market stress, not eliminated it;
  • Eurozone likely to slide back into recession.