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Current Crisis Poses a "Serious Challenge", Says ECB's Trichet

(CEP News) Frankfurt - The current crisis poses a

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ECB's Orphanides Says Crisis' Repercussion on Economy "Intensifying"

Frankfurt - The impact on the economy from the ongoing financial crisis seems to be intensifying, with uncertainty a pronounced levels, European Central Bank Governing Council Athanasios Orphanides said.Despite the relative normalization of the climate in the financial environment, the repercussions on the global economy appear to be intensifying and continuing, Orphanides said in a statement published by the Central Bank of Cyprus. The degree of economic uncertainty is particularly pronounced and a further significant worsening of domestic

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Fed's Bullard Says Inflation is "Real Possibility"

Deflation is a real possibility in the current environment, according to St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, while speaking at an event hosted by the French Central Bank in Paris on Friday.The central banker said that if people begin to anticipate negative inflation due to a longer-than-expected global recession, the phenomenon could spark a downward spiral in prices, resulting in a deflationary environment.In January, the Federal Reserve projected GDP in the United States will decline between 0.5%

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Financial Crisis Creating "Gaping Hole" in Economy, Says ECB's González-Páramo

Frankfurt - While inflation expectations are anchored, the current financial crisis is creating a gaping hole in the real economy, European Central Bank member José Manuel González-Páramo said.This is true not only for the euro area but for large economies at large, González-Páramo said at a conference in Madrid, Spain on Friday.The central banker also noted that some countries within the euro zone were in a weakened financial position due to the crisis. However, he stressed that preserving

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ECB Stark Says Excessively Low Rates May be Counterproductive

Frankfurt - European Central Bank Governing Council member Jürgen Stark warned that rate cuts will not solve the financial crisis and that rates at too low a level could even be counterproductive.The lower rates are, the less incentive banks have to clean up their balance sheets and carefully monitor their credit risks, Stark said in an interview with Luxembourg newspaper Tageblatt, published on Saturday.On Thursday, the ECB's Governing Council voted to reduce the central bank's key policy rate

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ECB's Trichet Sees No Further Need for Stimulus Boost

Frankfurt - Europe isn't in need of further increases in spending to counteract the current global financial crisis, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said.Speaking in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Monday, the central banker said that, instead, governments should act more quickly on measures already announced, making partial reference to the delays in the U.S. government's bank rescue.Nothing will really work until the financial sector is back on track and ready to lend

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BOE's Blanchflower Calls on BOE & Government to Consider Recession Policies

Speaking at the University of Nottingham, the reputedly dovish central banker acknowledged that the recent policy announcements made by government and the BOE, including an ambitious quantitative easing policy from the central bank worth £50 billion was, a step in the right direction. But we need to do more, he said. Past recessions have typically been associated with five quarters of negative growth, it has usually taken around three years to regain the pre-recession level of output and the deterioration

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Rates Could Come Down Further in March, Says ECB's Liikanen

(CEP News) Frankfurt - With inflation in line with the European Central Bank's target of price stability, the central bank could reduce its main refinancing rate at its next meeting in March, ECB Governing Council member Erkki Liikanen said.

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ECB's Wellink Says Market Conditions Remain "Fragile"

Market conditions remain fragile, and a recovery in the banking system appears to be a long way off, with more countries entering recession, Dutch central banker Nout Wellink said on Friday.Speaking at an event in Amsterdam, Wellink, who also sits on the European Central bank's Governing Council, called for a global solution as a means of resolving the turmoil, saying the current crisis resolution framework has had little effect in fighting the turmoil thus far.The economic recovery

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Concerns About Euro Country Defaults "Unfounded," Says ECB's Weber

Rising speculation about potential defaults by countries within the European monetary union are unfounded and purely hypothetical, European Central Bank Governing Council member Axel Weber said on Tuesday.While rising Credit Default Swap premiums on sovereign bonds have driven speculation about potential EMU country defaults, Weber said euro area member states with high yield spreads are currently facing favourable refinancing conditions thanks to unprecedented low interest rates.For European monetary union, the financial crisis is certainly posing the greatest

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