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The Swiss franc reached, yesterday, the highest level against the euro, in the last almost ten years, in the context of the turbulences on the financial markets, against the background of fears regarding a possible recession in the USA and the...

The Bank of Japan's decade-long fight against deflation and economic stagnation has resulted in near-zero profits domestically, forcing Japanese investors to move their money abroad, often to the United States. As a result, Japan is by far...

China plans to transition to a healthier growth model, but its strategy may set off a real showdown with other major economies, the CEO of Chinese economic data and analysis platform China Beige Book, Leland Miller, told CNBC, quoted by Business...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) returned to the first place in Asia, in terms of market capitalization, as significant funds left the Chinese stock market, heading for Japan and India, the Nihon publication announces Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei),...

Consumer prices in China continued to fall in January, recording the sharpest decline in 14 years, according to official data released yesterday, putting pressure on the Beijing government to adopt more aggressive measures to revive the...

January was the sixth consecutive month that foreign investors sold shares listed in China, according to a Bloomberg report, writes Business Insider. Last month, global funds sold 14.5 billion yuan -- about $2 billion -- of Chinese stocks as...

Investors, households and China's central bank are buying gold for its safe-haven status as the country's stock market and housing sector continue to sink, writes Business Insider, citing a report published by the Financial Times....

China's consumer prices were unchanged in September, while factory-gate prices posted annual declines for a third straight month, highlighting the uneven post-Covid recovery of the world's second-largest economy, which may require...

For some time now, the markets have been influenced almost daily by the gloomy economic news coming out of China. The world's second-largest economy is grappling with a host of problems, including deflation, record youth unemployment and a...

• IMF: "The initiative of suspending the payment of debts needs to be extended until 2021" 

Prices are falling for things people aren't buying and rising for things that they are", US economist Robert Wenzel wrote after the release of official US inflation data.

Scaderea puternica a dobanzilor de politica monetara definesc ultimul deceniu in partea dezvoltata a economiei globale. Diverse analize si dezbateri prezinta cauze structurale in aceasta privinta: demografia, mersul productivitatii, globalizarea,...

Lately, it seems that not a day goes by without the international press pointing out the inability of the central banks before the adverse dynamic of the real economies worldwide and the increased volatility on the international markets.

Au loc evenimente ce m-au îndemnat să revin asupra unui text scris acum mai bine de trei ani ("O lume a dobânzilor foarte scăzute?", Opinii BNR (15 febr.,2016) privind cauze pentru care ratele de politică monetară au atins nivele foarte...

Digitalizarea are impact asupra circulaţiei banilor, asupra industriei financiare. Şi activitatea autorităţilor de reglementare, a băncilor centrale, este afectată. În continuare abordez câteva aspecte ce privesc relaţia între Fintech şi...

Mersul inflaţiei începând cu a două jumătate a lui 2015 a fost influenţat de scăderea mare a TVA. Indicele preţurilor de consum (IPC) a ajuns în teritoriu negativ; în jargon oficial şi dezbateri publice s-a vorbit de "inflaţie negativă"....

Am fost întrebat dacă sunt posibile operaţiuni de relaxare cantitativă (QEs) în economii emergente, apropos de o ipoteză a lui Lucian Croitoru cu referire la o posibilă nouă criză în lume. Nu vreau să judec aici eventualitatea unei noi crize...

The blockchain technology is part of a recent technological revolution, started in 2008 with the alternative currency bitcoin. In the aftermath of the appearance of p2p programs (such as BitTorrent, Napster, KaZaA), an architecture which,...

Există un aspect important legat de circuitele monetare, asupra căruia merită să stăruim; este vorba de "găuri negre" ce pot apare în mod subit şi care înghit lichiditate, apariţia de sincope în circulaţia lichidităţii - aşa numite...

Expectaţiille inflaţioniste au un rol major în mersul inflaţiei şi conduita băncilor centrale. Guvernatorul Băncii Centrale a Irlandei, Philip Lane, afirmă că nu trebuie pierdută lupta cu aşteptările inflaţioniste (Daily Mail, 29 octombrie,...

Acest text urmează altuia în care am evidenţiat factori ce, este de admis, induc dezinflaţie, uneori deflaţie, în ţări industrializate ("Chiar dispare inflaţia?", Blog OpiniiBNR, 21 octombrie, a.c); am făcut referire la criza financiară...

Inflaţia există pentru că, într-o economie liberă, preţurile se mişcă, cel mai adesea în sus; este o platitudine această afirmaţie. Dar ea merită să fie spusă ţinând cont de ce se întâmplă în numeroase economii în ultimii ani. Este vorba de...

The European Central Bank has cut all the interest rates it "controls" in the last monetary policy session, in hopes of stimulating economic growth and inflation.

The global economy needs a collective boost to help it, as the volatile financial markets and low commodity prices create new worries concerning its health, says David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund....

Inflation in the Eurozone was not as high in November as expected in the initial official estimates, according to data published on December 16th by Eurostat, but analysts predict that the deflation fears will persist in the coming months....

Următoarea decizie de politică monetră este acompaniată de un set de condiţii nemaiîntâlnite până acum, atât interne cât şi externe. Înţelegerea corectă a acestor condiţii este esenţială pentru această...

Contextul dificil al următoarei decizii de politică monetară a BNR

Reporter: What are your expectations from the new elect president of Romania?

Through an ironic twist of fate, just as the European Central Bank became the sole watchdog of the biggest banks in Europe, an important step towards achieving the Banking Union, discord has set in in Frankfurt.

Reporter: The economy has entered a recession, after two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. How do you think the economy will evolve in the coming months, given a weaker harvest, the drop in investments, the drop in exports and the...

Reporter: Economia a intrat în recesiune, după ce două trimestre consecutive au înregistrat contracţie economică. Cum credeţi că va evolua economia în următoarele luni, în condiţiile unui an agricol mai slab, scăderii investiţiilor, reducerii...

The time has now come for the year-end assessments and for the forecasts for 2013. Like it has already become customary, Danish investment bank Saxo Bank has published its "outrageous" forecasts for 2013.

The time has now come for the year-end assessments and for the forecasts for 2013. Like it has already become customary, Danish investment bank Saxo Bank has published its "outrageous" forecasts for 2013.

• The European Parliament and the Polish presidency of the EU reach a compromise concerning the sanctioning of countries with fiscal problems 

The tense discussions on the matter of the "currency war" have opened the horizon for a difficult compromise among the strongest economies of the world, which, according to many analysts, would lead to the worsening of the current crisis....

It seems as if Andreea Paul Vass, advisor to the PM on economic issues, is doing her best to embarrass him, by throwing around figures pulled out of thin air, in a domain which requires high specialization: the state budget.

• Recovery may start in 2010 

Ana Săbiescu

The global economic crisis is the most ardently debated topic on all continents. Even Romanian talk shows were forced to tackle economic subjects which used to be regarded as uninteresting and quite boring. I"ve seen a debate on the economic...