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ECB president's strategy for reviving Europe looks like euro devaluation
Draghi Devaluing Euro Cheers ECB as Inflation Seen Fading
By Stefan Riecher and Alessandro Speciale
Bloomberg News
Monday, September 29, 2014
FRANKFURT, Germany -- Mario Draghi's strategy for reviving the euro area looks like devaluation.
While the European Central Bank president says the exchange rate isn't a policy target, officials aren't secretive about their approval of the currency's almost 10 percent slide. The depreciation increases the cost of imports and boosts exporters' competitiveness, aiding the effort to revive inflation that data tomorrow will probably show is the weakest since 2009. A gauge of economic confidence published today slipped to the lowest since November.
The euro dropped from a 2 1/2-year high in May as officials unveiled a medley of stimulus measures, and consolidated below $1.30 when Draghi cut rates this month and signaled a desire to grow the ECB's balance sheet by as much 1 trillion euros ($1.3 trillion). Details of a plan to buy assets will probably come this week after the Governing Council meets in Naples, Italy.
"When Draghi mentioned expanding the size of the balance sheet, I think he was secretly thinking of the exchange rate," said Martin Van Vliet, senior euro-area economist at ING Groep NV in Amsterdam. "I'm sure he's happy to see that the euro has been going down. He's well aware that one important channel of policy transmission is the exchange rate." ...
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Reuters
Thursday, September 25, 2014
NEW YORK -- The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) said on Thursday it appointed Citigroup as a market maker, underscoring the bank's ambitions to expand into the precious metals sector while others are exiting due to regulatory concerns.
LBMA said it named Citibank, a unit of Citigroup, as a spot market-making member effective Thursday. Currently, LBMA has 12 market makers that serve in either one, two, or all three of the spot, forwards, and options markets. They make markets by quoting two-way prices in both gold and silver products to other market makers. ...
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