This makes the Federal Reserve Board not only the monetary policymaker, but also the economic policymaker.
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STEVE LIESMAN: So, a policymaker who's a little nervous might not do anything, but a policymaker who's very nervous about low inflation might cut rates.
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Joel Rayburn, the top Iran policymaker at the National Security Council, is a former military intelligence officer, as is Andrew L. Peek, a senior Iran policymaker at the State Department.
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Bostic will also be the Fed's first openly gay policymaker.
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Be he's likely to be a much more extreme policymaker.
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If you're a policymaker to work out who is right.
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So start with what every elected policymaker should accept now.
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A "hawkish" monetary policymaker is more aggressive in warding off inflation.
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"I don't see any risk (of rises)," the policymaker told journalists.
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They are confusing Trump the person with Trump the economic policymaker.
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On those occasions, she was the lone policymaker advocating rate hikes.
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He will be the second Fed policymaker to step down this year.
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As leader, he is the top policymaker, top strategist and top salesman.
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But when I was reporting in Denmark, I talked to this policymaker.
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But when I was reporting in Denmark, I talked to this policymaker.
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Trump is not now nor has he ever been a nuanced policymaker.
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Defeat matured him "as a politician, policymaker and strategist" says Mr Garcé.
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Policymaker have vowed to keep economic growth within "a reasonable range" in 2019.
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Only one policymaker continues to see a rate hike as likely in 2019.
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A policymaker also can request an unmasking when the information concerns a crime.
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"Wells Fargo understands and is committed to addressing policymaker concerns," said Jennifer Dunn.
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PRAGUE - ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny speaks at a conference in Prague - 0800 GMT.
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PRAGUE - ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny speaks at a conference in Prague - 15153 GMT.
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He is a serious policymaker who communicates well and does not play games.
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But the presidency is important largely because the president is an important policymaker.
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Trump was not, of course, a conservative politician or policymaker at that time.
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No U.S. Treasury auctions or Federal Reserve policymaker speeches are scheduled for Friday.
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But as a policymaker, I won't be guided by the global warming propaganda machine.
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Latin American currencies weakened on Tuesday after comments by a high-ranking Fed policymaker.
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AS A REGULATOR, AS A POLICYMAKER, DO YOU LOOK AT THESE KIND OF NUMBERS?
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Any policymaker interested in achieving more credit union lending, as we honestly believe Sen.
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All of this suggests that now is hardly the time for European policymaker complacency.
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Not a reporter or policymaker would have batted an eyelash over such a revelation.
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But her words were also those of a policymaker chasing a frustratingly elusive consensus.
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Rubio, for his part, wanted to be the Party's lead policymaker on Latin America.
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Policymaker projections released at that meeting forecast no change to the rate this year.
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Despite its tendentious title -- has any US politician or policymaker really advocated American surrender?
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If those aren't significant costs for a policymaker to consider, then what else is?
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BRITISH POUND FALLS BELOW $1.30 AFTER BANK OF ENGLAND POLICYMAKER HINTS AT RATE CUT
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Kansas City Fed President Esther George was the only policymaker to dissent on Wednesday.
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Only one Fed policymaker had done so when economic forecasts were last issued in March.
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That sentiment was echoed on Friday by another senior policymaker, Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida.
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Villeroy is governor of the Bank of France, in addition to being an ECB policymaker.
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Speaking in South Korea, the policymaker said markets were "well-prepared " for a rate hike.
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The Fed will hike rates in December barring any major shocks, policymaker James Bullard said.
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His main achievement as policymaker is the design of KanCare, the state's privatised Medicaid programme.
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Now, a former Bush administration official will be the president's top policymaker on national security.
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"You're about to become the most important economic policymaker in the world," Mr. Heller asked.
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"I am an operator; I am not a policymaker," Mr. Renaud said at one point.
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I thought that I would go on to become an immigration lawyer or a policymaker.
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Late Tuesday a third policymaker advocated patience on rate hikes, given slow growth and inflation.
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By contrast, Russia's president and chief policymaker, Vladimir Putin, has few rivals for his fiscal pasture.
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Top ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure emphasised the bank would tread carefully with any further policy changes.
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Cain said he would also bring in wages as a "key factor" as a monetary policymaker.
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The role is part policymaker, part spokesperson, and full-time advocate for the state's public health.
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If he was a policymaker, he would wait, despite how much Wall Street wants easier policy.
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Countless times I've been asked by policymaker peers to explain the philanthropic sector and vice versa.
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Investors had been expecting four more hikes in 2016 based on policymaker projections at the time.
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S. growth is weakening, and I have got to take that into account as a policymaker.
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Within the financial sector - increasingly the focus of investor and policymaker action - disclosures were even worse.
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Increasing the severity of punishment, in other words, is the least effective lever a policymaker can pull.
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"As a colleague I could see he looked hurt," said one senior policymaker who works with Rajan.
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Earlier this month one BoE policymaker, Kristin Forbes, voted to raise rates due to fast-rising inflation.
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Kansas City Fed President Esther George was the only policymaker to dissent at the July policy meeting.
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Indeed, Fed policymaker projections expect growth of 2.5 percent next year compared to 3.1 percent this year.
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Former BoE policymaker David Miles has argued that bond purchases work best when financial markets are dysfunctional.
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Fed Governor Jerome Powell, an influential policymaker, told CNBC that he expects three rate hikes this year.
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Policymaker forecasts after the Fed's December 2015 rate hike pointed to four more rate hikes in 2016.
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How can an analyst or policymaker decide how much weight to give bellwethers like Walmart or Caterpillar?
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A prudent policymaker would at least attempt to distinguish militants from the peaceful members of a faith.
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You would be hard pressed to find a policymaker whose constituents are not affected by this issue.
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The nation is deciding on a powerful leader and policymaker who will not be vetted by Congress.
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The same day, a Bank of England meeting ended with one policymaker voting for a rate rise.
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Another Fed policymaker, Charles Evans, said he would go with an open mind to next month's meeting.
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The policymaker said the BOJ must show its readiness to act if the economy's recovery is derailed.
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"His track record over the past six years shows he is a thoughtful policymaker," Mr. Brown said.
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I wondered: How did she wrestle with all that as she went from reporter-author to policymaker?
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"If that's the mentality of the highest policymaker in the county, that's scary," the lawyer told WTVF.
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The policymaker most obviously intervening to push the yuan down against the dollar is Mr Trump himself.
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Kazimir, who will also become an ECB policymaker when he assumes office, said he had requested the delay.
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Trump also left the post of drug czar, the policymaker who heads the ONDCP, vacant for a year.
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What I'm hearing: China's top economic policymaker Liu He may be coming to D.C. for the January discussions.
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Another ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said, also on Monday, that negative inflation might arise in the months ahead.
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A seasoned policymaker will be all the more valuable, since the Treasury is also notably short of them.
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Since Trump is the policymaker, Musk will probably have to throw the first punch in this hypothetical fight.
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Fellow policymaker Carlos Gustavo Cano, however, has said Colombia requires additional, bigger rate increases to anchor inflation expectations.
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Yet the policymaker seized on the fact that core U.S. price readings have sagged for five straight years.
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By most conventional measures, Ms. Yellen's four years as the nation's top monetary policymaker have been a success.
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It ought to be an easy call for any policymaker or candidate who wants a better health system.
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Yi, 61, is a highly respected monetary policymaker with a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois.
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To appreciate today's perverted impeachment process, one must understand how the president supplanted Congress as policymaker-in-chief.
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And it would immeasurably strengthen the hand of every urban policymaker pushing for greater density and multimodal transportation.
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Nick Dowling has worked with the intelligence community as a customer, producer, and policymaker for more than 20 years.
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The policymaker said he thinks the U.S. economy is on track to reach the central bank's 2% inflation target.
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How do you, as a policymaker, react to this tit for tat when it comes to the trade war?
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One senior policymaker told me a few months ago that she doesn't know how to turn on her computer.
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And any policymaker bothered enough about the rankings to game them, probably cares at least a little about business.
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Policymaker Michael Saunders was quoted as saying by Bloomberg that Brexit might stop the BoE from raising interest rates.
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Next up is New York Fed president Bill Dudley, a dovish and influential policymaker, who speaks later on Friday.
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Kashkari, the Federal Reserve's newest policymaker, added it was something the U.S. central bank could use if deemed necessary.
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No move on rates is expected, but policymaker commentary will be scrutinized for indications on the path of tightening.
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The euro climbed to $2204.45 from as low as $210, hit after earlier ECB policymaker talk of extending stimulus.
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Most of the questions will revolve around decisions made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's main policymaker.
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To be sure, Fed forecasts show there is one Fed policymaker who wants a fifth rate hike this year.
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Or perhaps the concentration will reach a point that it spurs policymaker to adopt an even more radical fix.
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This level of executive power is worrisome even in the hands of a policymaker with the best of intentions.
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She is the latest U.S. central bank policymaker to emphasize the Fed is now on hold with interest rates.
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The Fed policymaker repeated that he backs "automatic" fiscal stabilizers like higher unemployment compensation when the jobless rate rises.
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Jouthe, a trained civil engineer, who was appointed this week by President Jovenel Moise, is considered an experienced policymaker.
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Inflation will always respond, eventually, to a determined policymaker who has access to interest rates and the printing presses.
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No policymaker today would implement this set of policies if he were designing the student loan program from scratch.
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A U.S. policymaker openly questioned if he had bitten off more than he could chew with the current negotiations.
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ECB policymaker Ilmars Rimsevics said on Monday that Europe was too relaxed about the prospect of contagion from China.
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The ECB should speed up its exit from "crisis-mode" monetary policy, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Sunday.
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"Sam is a dedicated public servant a forward-looking policymaker and a natural leader," BoE Governor Mark Carney said.
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The Fed will publish alongside the policy statement an addendum of policymaker projections on where they think rates should be.
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How much do you see the Fed as the policymaker for the entire world and especially emerging markets right now?
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"The recent announcement on tariffs by President Trump was highly regrettable," Lowe said, strong words for a typically measured policymaker.
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In opening remarks he said he understood that if confirmed his role would switch from policymaker to provider of information.
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"It's hard to imagine a digitalized economy when the main decision maker, the main policymaker, is not digitalized," he said.
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During his campaign for governor, Mr. Kobach, 52, presented himself as an effective policymaker who did not yield to opposition.
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By the time I was in fourth or fifth grade, I wanted to be an elected official or a policymaker.
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Every Fed policymaker backed raising interest rates last month and also generally agreed borrowing costs were set to rise further.
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Fellow Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro also said Friday that she would support a cut if the economy slowed.
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Investors view a U.S. rate rise as likely by December following hawkish recent comments by the Fed's No. 217.12 policymaker.
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He has furthermore been hailed as a thoughtful policymaker and seen as a relatively safe bet for central bank leadership.
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The Supreme Court first failed miserably in the role of national policymaker in the run-up to the Civil War.
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Javed Ali is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
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"All of these factors and more recommend against accepting the prescriptions of any one model, policy rule, or policymaker," Fischer said.
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But Moore's views on monetary policy, including his support for a rate cut, distinguish him from every other current Fed policymaker.
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Her comments came right before the blackout period for policymaker speeches heading into the Federal Reserve's June 14 to 15 meeting.
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Only one policymaker saw higher-than-normal levels of uncertainty, down from two in December, when the Fed had 16 policymakers.
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Expanding on her points from the previous night, Clinton cast herself as a levelheaded policymaker better prepared to lead than Trump.
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ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Wednesday, the euro's recent rise is "not helpful" and that the ECB is monitoring developments.
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Throughout his tenure in the Senate Mr Franken tried to shed his clownish persona and establish himself as a serious policymaker.
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As its only policymaker, it rescued the euro from financial and sovereign-debt crises, and powered a recovery in 2015-17.
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A senior ECB (European Central Bank) policymaker has backed the central bank's plan to kick-start inflation in the euro zone.
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But he has nothing coherent to say on substance about either the scandals surrounding him or his responsibilities as a policymaker.
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Like central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan and former finance minister Lou Jiwei, Guo is widely respected as a reform-minded policymaker.
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He works as a speechwriter and policymaker for the president and has Trump's ear on one of his signature issues: immigration.
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Richelieu was France's leading foreign policymaker under the reign of Louis XIII and during the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648).
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Despite her many years among policymakers and as a policymaker, Hillary Clinton seems woefully unable to learn the lessons of experience.
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Preventing disease, preserving habitats and slowing global warming are certainly answers a policymaker, environmentalist or Joe Public might want to hear.
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Councilor Pressley has both the experience as a policymaker here in Boston, but additionally, she brings a fresh lens and approach.
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A senior policymaker said on Thursday there was still more slack in the labor market than the unemployment rate would suggest.
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He was a hero to me: A great economist, an extraordinary public servant and policymaker, and a helluva mentor and teacher.
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The survey from the BIS, a global forum for central banks, underscored policymaker caution over issuing central bank-backed digital currencies (CBDC).
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Fischer, the Fed's No. 2 policymaker, said Friday's nonfarm payrolls report for August will likely weigh on the decision over a hike.
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Investors remained wary of the euro after another European Central Bank policymaker hinted it would take action at next week's policy review.
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The first Federal Reserve policymaker to comment since the vote, Governor Jerome Powell, said it had shifted global risks "to the downside".
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The Bank of England will probably need to raise interest rates sooner than financial markets expect, policymaker Michael Saunders said on Monday.
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Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, its China policymaker, said Beijing's unilateral action "damages the tacit understanding and foundation for cooperation between security agencies".
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The policymaker said he didn't see any reason to hike rates again except in the event of surprising growth or inflation data.
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Often seen smiling in photos alongside EU leaders, many Western officials see Zarif as a moderately-inclined policymaker they can work with.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 14 ** VIENNA - European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny speaks at a closed-door session of an Austrian parliamentary finance committee.
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As a policymaker, I have too often seen important social science overlooked and underfunded in favor of the physical and biomedical sciences.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's keynote address will be must-see Davos programming for every CEO, banker or policymaker on the ground.
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She expected as secretary of state to be a real policymaker who would help shape President Obama's foreign and national security policies.
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Everyone from the solar homeowner to the power plant owner to the policymaker in Washington D.C. should be part of the conversation.
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He wrote numerous articles and books at Brookings, including "Memos to the President: A Guide Through Macroeconomics for the Busy Policymaker" (1992).
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The dangers linked to Brexit for Europe continue to be underestimated, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Thursday.
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This basic principle guided my actions for 2628 years as a physician, and continues to shape my thinking today as a policymaker.
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This was a totally bonkers migration event that no policymaker in their right mind would have planned, and it still worked out.
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And what else can we do if we're not a policymaker or in the extended cast of Orange Is the New Black?
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We look at Mr. Powell's background and at the legacy of Ms. Yellen, the top economic policymaker in the U.S. since 2014.
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The policymaker said the Fed should not "disintermediate" the private market by becoming the first stop for firms in need of liquidity.
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A U.S. policymaker said on Tuesday that low yields meant the central bank would have to be careful about raising rates further.
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"Healthcare reform in its current state is one of the most difficult issues we've ever addressed from a policymaker standpoint," he said.
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The U.S. central bank policymaker is expected to comment on monetary policy, shortly after the Fed decided to keep interest rates unchanged.
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The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rose 7 basis points , with hawkish comments from Federal Reserve policymaker Charles Evans also buoying yields.
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London stocks added 1%, with exporters buoyed by a weaker pound central bank policymaker hinted at a cut in UK interest rates.
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A rise in the dollar can increase disinflationary pressures on the U.S. economy, a point touched upon recently by a Fed policymaker.
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But any policymaker trying to tackle the country's most significant problems will quickly find the biggest divides in America are not regional.
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Nor can it be that Trump was looking for an experienced policymaker capable of running a cleaner, more open process than Cohn.
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The Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's top China policymaker, called on Beijing to pursue the criminal cases under "the universal value of due process".
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His comments come after fellow SNB policymaker Andreas Maechler said last week that the SNB could drop interest rates further into negative territory.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Central Bank needs to start a discussion on its new policy framework, ECB policymaker Madis Müller said on Friday.
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At the Bank of Japan's most recent meeting, one policymaker said that the prospects for growth and reflation stand at a "critical juncture".
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Amazon's cloud segment as become a vital part of its success — particularly as its e-commerce business faces growing policymaker and antitrust scrutiny.
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Kaplan's comments make him the second policymaker this week to strike a modestly downbeat note on the Fed's ability to raise rates soon.
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Martin Weale, a policymaker on the BoE's nine-member rate setting committee said on Thursday that the pound's decline could push up inflation.
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It was a stark shift for a policymaker who for most of last year warned that the economy could overheat without rate hikes.
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Federal Reserve (Fed) policymaker James Bullard has declared that the path of inflation in the U.S. is "worrisome", speaking in Tokyo on Friday.
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BOJ policymaker Yukitoshi Funo said earlier this month that higher yields could help banks, signaling a rate hike could be a future option.
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That such loans are on policymakers' minds is evident in the minutes from the last ECB meeting, policymaker comments and on bond markets.
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"Unwinding monetary support is far more difficult than expanding it," said a former BOJ policymaker who retains close contact with incumbent central bankers.
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" A policymaker stressed that the Reserve Bank of India did not set the rupee's exchange rate and is "there only to contain volatility.
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With costs to employers so small but the benefits for working families so great, why would any rational policymaker oppose these overtime changes?
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And I think one of the problems you've got as a policymaker today, is you know you can look at the global economy.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Jens Weidmann said plans for a state bailout of Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS.
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However, this seems unlikely and less of a danger than the miscalculation that may come with U.S. policymaker self-analysis of the video.
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SX7E touched their highest point in more than a year after an European Central Bank policymaker kindled talk of a possible rate hike.
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Broader emerging equities were flat and currencies mostly weakened after upbeat U.S. data and hawkish policymaker comments boosted the dollar and Treasury yields.
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Our professions as a scientist and policymaker are linked – we are charged with offering solutions to our greatest challenges, including the climate crisis.
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He is perceived to be more hawkish policymaker — meaning that he would probably support a strong increase in interest rates for the country.
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The comments were among the first made by a Fed policymaker since the U.S. central bank made an unexpectedly dovish shift on Wednesday.
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The uncertainty risks damaging economies far beyond Britain's shores, and European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau joined the clamor for haste.
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The prince is a son of King Salman, and an older half brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's key policymaker.
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Fischer, the Fed's No. 2 policymaker, said the Labor Department's jobs report for August will likely weigh on the decision over a hike.
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In many ways, he is an "America First" policymaker who represented America at the United Nations but never really believed in global institutions.
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David Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and a former BoE policymaker, agrees that a UK recession is coming.
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In 2012, Weidmann was the only ECB policymaker to oppose offering help to euro zone countries in financial distress through conditional bond purchases.
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Benoit Coeure, an ECB policymaker, told Le Parisien newspaper on Thursday that the central bank was considering the future of its largest denomination.
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Influential Fed policymaker Dudley, meanwhile, seemed comfortable with four rate hikes in 2018, but said those increases would occur at a gradual pace.
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This version of Donald Trump is a thoughtful policymaker who carefully weighs costs and benefits and pushes policy in a more rational direction.
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Where technology and economics collide In 218, Narayana Kocherlakota did something that's rare for a policymaker of his prominence: He changed his mind.
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Or if you're a government policymaker, perhaps you like people of one sort of background more than you like people of another background.
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How do you process as a policymaker the impact of something like this on the economy and overall the volatility of the stock market?
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Sterling also fell after Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale said he had dropped his opposition to policy easing and now favored immediate stimulus.
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TELL ME HOW YOU, AS A POLICYMAKER, PARTICULARLY ONE WITH ALL THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE YOU HAVE, HOW DO YOU PROCESS THIS UNCERTAINTY INTO POLICY?
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The rift on how the world should tackle slowing growth appears to be growing between Germany and a leading European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker.
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"Now that dela Rosa is a policymaker, there is renewed urgency in bringing all those responsible for 'drug war' crimes to justice," he said.
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ECB policymaker Jens Weidmann on Thursday also warned against rolling back jointly agreed rules which force banks to build bigger buffers against future crises.
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The controversy was over the fact that Jacobs has described herself as a policymaker who worked at the State Department under the Obama administration.
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A senior policymaker, who requested anonymity as the discussions are not public, said the government would have to help to sufficiently capitalize the banks.
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This article recommends several areas for policymaker attention, including education and learning, support for gig economy workers and ideas for paying for these programs.
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In fact, it is hard, if not impossible, to find a policymaker who don't tell their constituents that they'll work to eliminate government waste.
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ECB policymaker Olli Rehn on Thursday flagged the need for a significant easing package in September, sending yields across the bloc to new lows.
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Every Fed policymaker backed the September decision to raise the target policy rate to between 2 percent and 2.25 percent, according to the minutes.
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ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny's comments on the weekend were perceived as hawkish, too while unease is building about U.S. inflation numbers due on Wednesday.
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The ECB will decide later whether to raise interest rates before or after ending its bond purchase program, policymaker Ewald Nowotny told a newspaper.
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Strategy formulation should be a joint operation led by the policymaker in which intelligence plays a unique role, presenting analysis and providing strategic insights.
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Policy implications of this may be limited, as no serious policymaker would suggest increasing insecurity in member-states to increase contributions to peacekeeping missions.
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But the ECB will probably decide this summer to slash its bond purchases if things develop as expected, policymaker Ewald Nowotny said last week.
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That echoed the view of fellow policymaker Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, who on Friday said both possibilities are on the table for him.
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But on Friday, an influential Fed policymaker said the central bank would keep a close eye on financial markets as it set interest rates.
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No policymaker or regulator in their right mind is going to ask a shrinking group of natural gas ratepayers to pay these exorbitant costs.
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Here's the bad news: When it comes to circuit court nominees—appellate court positions with considerably more legal policymaker power—all bets are off.
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"Mario Draghi was very close to the markets and listened to them perhaps too much," one policymaker, who asked not to be named, said.
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"I'll give you five reasons for a rate cut," said a policymaker, who asked not to be identified, before repeating "exchange rate" five times.
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Perkins is a prime example of the many conservative evangelical leaders who he says embrace Trump the policymaker, despite their reservations about Trump the man.
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Yet as of September, not one Fed policymaker expected more than three rate cuts in 2019, based on quarterly economic projections released after the meeting.
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John McDonnell, who'll serve as chancellor of the exchequer (the nation's head economic policymaker) should Labour win the next election, is a regular, loyal reader.
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The British pound also garnered support after Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale said on Monday there was no urgent need to cut interest rates.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The risks for financial stability in Europe are currently more political than economic, veteran European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Wednesday.
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The Fed's No.22.09 policymaker, Stanley Fischer, said on Sunday the central bank is close to hitting targets for full employment and 218.89 percent inflation.
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South Korea's top economic policymaker says he expects Hanjin Shipping vessels marooned offshore of Long Beach, California, will be able to offload cargo this week.
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The U.S. economy could still deliver "sound" growth and warrant a single rate hike "at most" this year, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Wednesday.
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Villeroy, a European Central Bank policymaker, told a gathering of students that risks in Europe had already been spelled out by the European Central Bank.
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Powell is a current policymaker and is seen by Fed followers as a Yellen-style pragmatist who will continue with gradual raises to interest rates.
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"I understand full well that my job, if confirmed, will be to change roles from policymaker to information provider," he said during his opening statement.
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Kevin Warsh (pictured on the right), a former banker who was a Fed policymaker from 2006 to 2011, appears to be manoeuvring for the job.
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Influential Fed policymaker William Dudley suggested on Tuesday that broad contagion through financial markets was a risk, particularly if the vote leads to EU instability.
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The pound took a knock after BOE policymaker Ian McCafferty said more monetary easing was likely to be required if the UK's economic decline worsens.
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Earlier this week, noted hawk and policymaker Martin Weale said he was unsure if he would back an interest rate cut at next month's meeting.
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The loonie has retreated this week after a Bank of Canada policymaker said the currency's strength will be a factor in future interest rate decisions.
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European bank stocks touched their highest point in more than a year after an European Central Bank policymaker kindled talk of a possible rate hike.
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He tweeted on May 3 that he had received the Policymaker Award from a charter school lobbying and advocacy group, the American Federation for Children.
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Those limits spurred policymaker interest in Ronald Reagan's "supply-side" approach to tax policy, an approach that is very much the model Hassett is following.
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ECB policymaker Jan Smets, who heads Belgium's central bank, told CNBC Tuesday that escalating global tensions clearly constituted a "downward risk" to economic growth worldwide.
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They raised concerns about his record as a banking regulator and as a policymaker, and also criticized the search process for a lack of transparency.
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China announced today that Vice Premier Liu He, a leading economic policymaker, would join a delegation traveling to Washington for talks on Thursday and Friday.
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The administration initially considered dispatching Juan Cruz, a veteran Central Intelligence Agency official who recently stepped down as the White House's top Latin America policymaker.
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It may help to calm readers (especially younger ones) to remember that Daum is not a policymaker but rather a lauded memoirist and personal essayist.
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Sterling, meanwhile, slammed the dollar as well, after a Bank of England policymaker opened the door for a possible rate increase in the coming months.
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the head policymaker for Latin America's largest economy explained why he thought the IMF's forecast was wrong.
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WARSAW, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Poland's senate dismissed on Thursday central bank policymaker Marek Chrzanowski from the rate-setting Monetary Policy Council, senate voting records showed.
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After all, it's the first time the president and the nation's top monetary policymaker have had such a meeting since an informal dinner last February.
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Hardly a day goes by without some influential opinion or policymaker applauding NATO for being the oldest and most successful military alliance on the planet.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union's top antitrust policymaker, Margrethe Vestager, is open to the idea of pan-European mergers in the telecoms market, Orange's (ORAN.
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The dollar fell sharply on Wednesday after weak U.S. data and comments from a Fed policymaker interpreted as signalling further rate hikes could be delayed.
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The big picture: The news comes on the heels of policymaker concerns that the Chinese-owned app could be a national security threat to Americans.
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He was also a seasoned economic policymaker: he had run the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and served in the Treasury department under three presidents.
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The euro rise has been fueled by stronger-than-expected growth in the euro zone but also comments by top U.S. policymaker welcoming a weaker dollar.
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On September 6th Stanley Fischer, a seasoned policymaker and crisis-fighter (see Free exchange), announced that for personal reasons he was retiring early as vice-chairman.
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The debates, which will be viewed by huge audiences, give Clinton a chance to show Americans who she is as a person, not just a policymaker.
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We will work across the aisle — with every policymaker and the new administration — to find solutions that deliver affordable coverage and high-quality care for everyone.
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The BOJ has in the past caused market gyrations through policymaker statements that have been incorrectly interpreted by traders as a sign of imminent policy change.
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"I understand full well that my job, if confirmed, will be to change roles from policymaker to information provider," he will say, according to prepared remarks.
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Rates will remain low as long as needed to bring inflation back to the central bank's 53 percent target, ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure said on Friday.
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With no major economic data or policymaker speeches scheduled and the Christmas holiday approaching, the euro dragged itself from Tuesday's 14-year low back above $2118.66.
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The European Central Bank is committed to keeping monetary policy loose until inflation returns to its target, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday.
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While McMaster has immediate access to the Oval Office, he is more of a coordinator than policymaker in the eyes of the Pentagon, defense officials say.
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Support for the dollar also came from rising U.S. yields after comments from a U.S. policymaker boosted expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate increases this year.
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"I fully supported the ... December action," said Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, a somewhat hawkish policymaker who regains a vote on U.S. monetary policy this year.
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What we know: • Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's main policymaker, set a $24.3 trillion goal for the company's valuation more than three years ago.
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Central bank stimulus hopes also added to the optimism after European Central Bank policymaker Olli Rehn's comments on Thursday fueled expectations for aggressive ECB easing soon.
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Each of us—one a federal policymaker, the other a veteran of children's health advocacy—sees the past 2628 years as marked by loss and struggle.
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In the same way, the Court suggests that a policymaker may express discriminatory animus on some occasions and make decisions for non-discriminatory reasons on others.
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European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau urged Thursday for central banks to consider risks from climate change when setting monetary policy, according to Reuters.
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"It's necessary to give a clear definition on what we mean by an 'exit' from easy policy and 'policy normalization'," the policymaker was quoted as saying.
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Euro zone policymaker Benoit Coeure's comments on Thursday have also contributed to this shift in euro zone government bond prices, said DZ Bank analyst Andy Cossor.
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VIENNA, March 19 (Reuters) - The Austrian economy is well positioned to survive the current coronavirus-related crisis, European Central Bank policymaker Robert Holzmann said on Thursday.
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"I expect it will be extraordinarily more difficult to discuss this with a new Italian government than with the current one," the fourth EU policymaker said.
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The euro rise has been fuelled by stronger-than-expected growth in the euro zone but also comments by top U.S. policymaker welcoming a weaker dollar.
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ECB board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger made the most explicit call so far from an ECB policymaker for paring the bank's 2924.10 trillion euros money-printing program.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Thursday that he would favor some measures to mitigate the unintended side effects of negative rates.
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The ECB is working on moving away from its ultra-easy monetary policy, Jens Weidmann, head of Germany's Bundesbank and an ECB policymaker, said on Saturday.
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Sterling slipped below $1.23 against the dollar after a Bank of England policymaker said the next move for the central bank could be a rate cut.
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The median Fed policymaker forecast in mid-March, when the U.S. central bank last tightened monetary policy, was for two more rate increases by year end.
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The appointment of a well-known European former policymaker is likely to be warmly welcomed by the European Union, where IASB rules are mandatory for listed companies.
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Incidentally, because O'Rielly is a presidential appointee and policymaker confirmed by the Senate, President Trump has sole authority to decide if O'Rielly should be face disciplinary action.
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Policymaker Carlos Gustavo Cano, on the other hand, said earlier this month Colombia requires additional, more forceful increases in its benchmark interest rate to anchor inflation expectations.
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STEVE LIESMAN: Tell us how, as a policymaker, you react when you hear the President talk about what the Federal Reserve should be doing with interest rates?
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Daly will receive a vote at the Fed's December meeting, so watch for a ton of speculation about whether she will be a dovish or hawkish policymaker.
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And one policymaker, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, suggested that buying short-term notes could look like the Fed was overtly supporting the U.S. government's debt issuance.
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The policymaker who came up with the idea says the ban should be 365 days a year—but not because it improved air quality all that much.
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While central bank officials say there is no going back on the clean-up, a senior policymaker said the March 2017 deadline was not "cast in stone".
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ZURICH (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Saturday he expects interest rates to be lower in the long term than they have been historically.
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Fed policymaker William Dudley told Market News International in an interview published on Wednesday that monetary conditions had tightened since the Fed raised rates on Dec. 3.
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The central bank's policymaker took a sharply dovish turn from policy projections just three months earlier when it estimated two rate hikes would be appropriate in 2019.
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Not even St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, the lone Fed policymaker who voted at the Fed's June meeting for a rate cut, has gone that far.
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The minister, who is considered the most influential policymaker in the industry, will face U.S. shale industry producers who have been devastated by the oil price plunge.
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The pound extended gains after Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale said he was unsure if he would back an interest rate cut at next month's meeting.
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New York Fed President William Dudley, an influential policymaker at the U.S. central bank, said on Tuesday it was "possible" to hike rates at the Fed's Sept.
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In addition to being the go-to policymaker for the tech industry in general, he's also working on digital initiatives within the government and the French state.
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A BoE survey published on Wednesday that showed British workers in line for their biggest pay rises since 2008 could also fuel policymaker concerns over inflationary pressures.
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The key to the Trump administration's efforts in combating anti-Semitism will be the appointment of a leading policymaker to direct the battle, both domestically and abroad.
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European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny gave a speech on Tuesday, expressing confidence in the euro zone's economy, but reiterating the ECB needed to start normalisation now.
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Investors are pondering whether a rate hike is still likely this summer after an incoming BoE policymaker expressed caution over the impact of Brexit on Britain's economy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is unlikely to remain in Europe's carbon market following its exit from the European Union, the European Parliament's lead carbon policymaker said on Thursday.
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For every policymaker professing intense outrage at someone else's tax evasion, there's almost always a close associate, campaign donor, or even family member in on the action.
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"In my position, I'm both a lead engineer for the security products in place as well as policymaker, and a manager of people and projects," he said.
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But Warren's achievements as a scholar/policymaker are central to her political identity, and clearly should be front and center in any reporting about her presidential bid.
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"Has the policymaker of this directive been kicked in the head by a donkey?" one user who went by the handle Xiao Bai Ba wrote on Weibo.
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Sterling fell sharply on Monday after another BoE policymaker had said he would vote for a cut to rates later this month unless economic data improved significantly.
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Inflation having hit 2 percent last month, essentially meeting the ECB's target, also put some pressure on policymaker as German criticism of loose monetary policy heated up.
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The dollar was flat at 112.05 yen after losing 0.7 percent overnight, with mixed U.S. data and dovish comments from a Fed policymaker weighing on the greenback.
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Policymaker Jon Cunliffe, who has previously said the fall in the pound on the Brexit vote made rate decisions trickier, is due to speak at 1300 GMT.
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Only one Fed policymaker, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, has said outright in recent weeks that he feels the Fed may soon need to cut rates.
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Federal Reserve policymaker Charles Evans said on Wednesday that low inflation would not stop the central bank from beginning to shrink its $4.5 trillion balance sheet next month.
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He added that it was not a new trend that markets were pricing in different moves for U.S. rates than the Fed's 'Dot Plot' of policymaker rate expectations.
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"The ECB must ask itself if 2 percent inflation is realistic," Luc Coene, a former ECB policymaker who now works as its bank supervision arm, told a newspaper.
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The major averages have held steady since the Fed minutes and key policymaker comments in the past week indicated a hike could come as soon as next month.
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I have been a policymaker and an intelligence official, a political appointee, and a career bureaucrat who spent much of my time trying to advance American national interests.
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An "evidence-based policymaker" would conclude that there are more promising areas for reform, says Joshua Cowen of Michigan State University, who has studied the Milwaukee voucher programme.
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Investors appeared to ignore comments that could be considered supportive for the currency from Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders, who said interest rates needed to rise soon.
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"But my sense of the mood of the general policymaker community is that the appetite for differentials in prudential requirements is not very strong," Farkas added on Tuesday.
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The median policymaker at the Federal Reserve, however, sees long-term growth at 2 percent, which is the same rate seen by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
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Banks across Europe were outperforming the broader indexes, after comments from European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny raised the prospect of an interest rate rise in the bloc.
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The policymaker told Reuters last month that he sees no need to raise rates again this year unless economic growth or inflation shifts to an unexpectedly higher gear.
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Every Fed policymaker backed the central bank's September decision to raise the target policy rate to between 2 percent and 2.25 percent, according to minutes of the Sept.
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Hildebrand, who was a Swiss National Bank policymaker during the global crisis, noted this week that the total return for bank shareholders since the 1990s had been zero.
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In addition, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Wednesday the euro weakness was caused by the growing interest rate differential between the United State and Europe.
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The policymaker also said that Fed officials are still evaluating solutions for improving liquidity in money markets and studying why reserves are not circulating within the banking system.
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The policymaker also said that Fed officials are still evaluating solutions for improving liquidity in money markets and studying why reserves are not circulating within the banking system.
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Investors remained wary of buying the euro after another top European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker hinted at possible action next week, when the ECB holds its policy review.
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Stretching back at least five years as a policymaker he has repeatedly used similar phrasing to describe how the Fed should behave when interest rates are near zero.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Bank of Japan policymaker praised Adolf Hitler's economic policies on Thursday, but said they enabled the Nazi dictator to do "horrible" things to the world.
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The minutes of the Federal Reserve's December meeting released on Wednesday showed that almost every Fed policymaker agreed Trump's measures could call for a faster move on rates.
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The Federal Reserve confirmed on Monday that influential monetary policymaker William Dudley plans to retire by mid-2018, leaving the leadership of the U.S. central bank unusually open.
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FRANKFURT/RIGA (Reuters) - Latvia's central bank governor, recently detained in a bribery probe, returned to work as an ECB policymaker this week, the country's central bank told Reuters.
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Sterling has been supported by expectations that the Bank of England will raise rates in May and hawkish comments by policymaker Ian McCafferty on Tuesday offered further encouragement.
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But on Monday ECB policymaker Jens Weidmann said plans for a state bailout of Monte dei Paschi should be weighed carefully as many questions remain to be answered.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. interest rates are in the right place given a strong economy and "essentially nonexistent" inflation pressures, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Wednesday.
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Separately, Latvia's anti-corruption authority released central bank Governor Ilmars Rimsevics, an ECB policymaker, who was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of having solicited a 100,000 euro bribe.
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The media-shy policymaker addressed a group of BRICS officials ahead of a meeting of the five heads of government in the Indian state of Goa this weekend.
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Yields had earlier hit new record lows across the euro zone after ECB policymaker Olli Rehn on Thursday flagged the need for a significant easing package in September.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The inflation outlook is less sensitive than is growth to risks currently looming over the global economy, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday.
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ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure is due to deliver a preliminary report on the matter next week at a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Chantilly north of Paris.
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Keeping the Boss Happy MR. FALIH Mr. Falih has the unenviable job of catering to the whims of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's policymaker in chief.
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Dartmouth College professor Danny Blanchflower, who had a front seat to the Great Recession as a policymaker at the Bank of England, suggested a simple approach: walk around.
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"If I were a policymaker, I might think it was a good idea," said Dr. Jeffery C. Ward, an oncologist at the Swedish Cancer Institute in Edmonds, Wash.
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Most important, the mini-recession of 2015-16 offers a cautionary tale for any policymaker who might want to think of the United States as an economic island.
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The European Central Bank is prepared to support the economy if needed but more action is not yet needed, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday.
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Elsewhere, the British pound fell 0.3% to $1.3037 and flirted with a two-week low after dovish comments from Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe over the weekend.
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Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe has said he was "concerned" that the low household savings rate could leave households vulnerable to shocks to their income or employment.
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In 2012, the Federal Reserve started publishing a "dot plot" charting the view of each policymaker on where interest rates should be in the future, albeit without names.
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Those uncertainties pushed BoE policymaker Michael Saunders to hint at a likely interest rate cut scenario, just a week after the bank kept rate cuts off the chart.
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On Tuesday, policymaker Ewald Nowotny said the ECB will probably decide this summer to slash its bond purchases, warning that the ECB must not fall "behind the curve".
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"The existential danger to the nation is when the policymaker corrupts the role of the intelligence agencies, which is to provide unbiased and apolitical intelligence to inform policy."
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Mr. Abrams, a policymaker who served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress during the Iran-contra scandal.
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Dudley was chief economist at Goldman Sachs before joining the Fed where he became a key architect of its crisis response and later the No. 2 policymaker behind Yellen.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank still has powder dry to act in the face of weak inflation if needed, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday.
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The euro rise has been fueled by stronger-than-expected growth in the euro zone but also comments by a top U.S. policymaker in support of a weaker dollar.
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A senior policymaker who works closely with Rajan said the bank clean up exercise had been "institutionalized" and was on auto-mode, playing down any impact from Rajan's exit.
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ZURICH, July 27 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Saturday he expects interest rates to be lower in the long term than they have been historically.
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Euro zone bond yields kept falling after another European Central Bank policymaker warned that inflation in the bloc remained sluggish, a potential hurdle to the withdrawal of monetary stimulus.
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The eurosceptic, anti-austerity coalition comprising the anti-establishment 5-Star and far-right League has already been described as on a "suicide mission" by a euro zone policymaker.
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The influential policymaker delivered a speech discussing what should be done when central banks are near the "zero lower bound," or close to as low as rates can go.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to his word on preserving the central bank's independence, policymaker James Bullard told a German newspaper on Sunday.
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The Federal Reserve had confirmed on Monday that influential monetary policymaker William Dudley plans to retire by mid-2018, leaving the leadership of the U.S. central bank unusually open.
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"Mike was a true policymaker, passionate about the intricacies of his work and always driven by what he believed was best for the country and his district," Ryan said.
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PARIS, June 24 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that authorities were "mobilised and determined" after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
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But the Dutch and French elections have changed that, and Macron's win will release the "political handbrake" which has had a major impact on investor, corporate and policymaker behavior.
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Kashkari, the Fed's newest policymaker, is not a voter on monetary policy this year, and his views on the economic outlook and interest-rate policy are not well known.
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The central bank is likely to decide next week to ease its asset purchases while avoiding an abrupt cut in their volume, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Friday.
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"I have the impression from talking to businesses (...) that most are not prepared for a no-deal Brexit, and don't know really how to," Bank policymaker Michael Saunders said.
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But, regardless of any legal objection, a senior ECB policymaker speaking on condition of anonymity said any such IOU, branded MiniBOT after the Italian Treasury bill, would not work.
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The pound took a knock on Tuesday after Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty said more monetary easing was likely to be needed if the UK's economic decline worsened.
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However, one vulnerable population may require additional policymaker attention and resources if it is to realize a decline in smoking rate: those living with mental or behavioral health issues.
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With no major economic data or policymaker speeches scheduled and the Christmas holiday approaching, the euro dragged itself from Tuesday's 14-year low back up to the $1.04 area.
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A former government economic policymaker said the central bank chief's relations with his deputy governors were poor but he felt he could ignore them because he had Buhari's backing.
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Fed policymaker statements and recently released minutes from the September policy meeting indicate Trump's criticism of the central bank's interest rate hikes have had little influence over its plans.
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ECB policymaker Jens Weidmann has said state involvement in the rescue of Italian banks can't be ruled out, piling further pressure on Rome to bail out Monte dei Paschi.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty talked on Wednesday about a slowing British economy, according to two people who attended a private business conference where he spoke.
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"Every policymaker in the country, whether they're running for president or not, should be thinking about how best we can prevent this hate fueled violence from continuing," he said.
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There is no comprehensive picture of that yet, said one Chinese economic policymaker, who like many other officials would speak about Chinese policy only on the condition of anonymity.
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The biggest mover was the British pound, which dropped 0.2% to $1.3041 and flirted with a two-week low after dovish comments from Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe.
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Euro zone interest rates will remain low as long as needed to bring inflation back to the central bank's 2 percent target, ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure said on Friday.
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The country's central bank governor, a top policymaker at the European Central Bank whose term in office ends in late December, is accused of accepting bribes and money laundering.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone businesses would benefit if efforts were made to encourage the international use of the shared currency, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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The euro rise has been fuelled by stronger-than-expected growth in the euro zone but also comments by a top U.S. policymaker in support of a weaker dollar.
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In the context of a slowing European economy, the ECB policymaker said countries with higher fiscal room or capacity could contribute with more fiscal stimulus to support their economies.
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The policymaker should continue to address the problem of credit and business confidence and overall financial stability to break the selective liquidity trap for optimization of the rate transmission.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty said on Wednesday there were no big differences among top officials at the central bank about the path for interest rates.
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The policymaker suggested she was prepared to back the announcement of a reduction of the Fed's $4.5-trillion balance sheet at a mid-September policy meeting, as widely expected.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's latest economic forecasts are still valid and its monetary policy stance appears to be appropriate, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny told Reuters on Tuesday there was a possibility of a 20 basis-point hike in the deposit rate as part of ECB efforts to normalise policy.
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DO YOU AS A POLICYMAKER, THERE'S BEEN THE BASIC NARRATIVE OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS IS IT'S BEEN THE FED ON THE FRONT LINES IN DOING ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Lower capital requirements for European subsidiaries of EU banks would help encourage the emergence of more cross-border banks, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank can set its own monetary policy independently of the Federal Reserve, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Sunday.
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With his remarks at an economic event in Alpbach, Austria, the veteran policymaker repeated a suggestion he made in April, drawing an unusual rebuttal from the ECB at the time.
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Instead, he presented an analysis of why the Fed should continue to rely on a committee to decide policy, rather than on a single policymaker or on a policy rule.
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European Central Bank policymaker Benoit Coeure is due to deliver a preliminary report on the matter this week at a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Chantilly, north of Paris.
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NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - Concerns about both the foreign and domestic economy led to the U.S. Federal Reserve's sharply downgraded forecasts last week, a top policymaker said on Wednesday.
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"When you consider it (Taiwan-China relationship) from a regional perspective, any reasonable policymaker will have to very carefully deliberate as to whether launching war is an option," Tsai said.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's central bank is unlikely to give signals on future changes in its record low interest rates before July, when new economic forecasts are published, a policymaker said.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation could be higher next year than now projected as energy prices are moving higher, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny told Bloomberg television on Friday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Thursday he takes a very positive view of European Union leaders' decision to name Christine Lagarde president of the ECB.
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"The markets are seeing that three is possible, four is possible, but five or six seems to me is quite unlikely," Dudley, an influential outgoing Fed policymaker, said on CNBC.
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A eurozone government bond selloff resumed after hawkish rhetoric from a Bank of England policymaker bolstered the notion that central banks across the developed world are moving into tightening mode.
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"As it relates to policymaker engagement, Boeing has a long history of bipartisan engagement - and that team and its experience is paying dividends for them now," the GOP lobbyist said.
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Those comments from the Fed's No. 2 policymaker kept the dollar from falling Monday, but the reluctance to make bullish bets ahead of Yellen's remarks kept the dollar from rallying.
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Veteran Fed policymaker Eric Rosengren said on Wednesday that falling unemployment and sustained growth meant the economy had accelerated beyond a sustainable level, so the Fed should continue raising rates.
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The central bank policymaker said she would be watching labor market data for signs that one of the consistently strongest parts of the U.S. economy might be starting to falter.
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European Central Bank policymaker Benoit Coeure is due to deliver a preliminary report on the matter next week at a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Chantilly, north of Paris.
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Urzua, who was seen as a moderate policymaker and disciplined manager of public finances, blamed meddling in the finance ministry and ill-thought-out economic policies for his abrupt resignation.
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European Central Bank policymaker Benoit Coeure is due to deliver a preliminary report on the matter at a meeting of G7 finance ministers this week in Chantilly, north of Paris.
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I am not a political theorist, let alone a policymaker, and I think I manage to get to the end of the book without pretending to be either of these.
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To be sure, the cause of, and remedy for, any individual recession are out of the hands of any single policymaker and more often a function of cyclical market trends.
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"I think anyone who knows John Bolton is celebrating because of his intellect, his capacity, his experience, his talent," Dobbs said when the veteran Washington policymaker was appointed by Trump.
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It makes these technologies uniquely vulnerable to the ebb and flow of public opinion and policymaker interest, and increases the need for simple, durable policies that can weather political shifts.
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"The side effects are more acute now and I think we should tone down our communication that benefits far outweigh the costs," an ECB policymaker said on condition of anonymity.
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Mr. Javed Ali is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School of Public Policy and served as Senior Counterterrorism Director on the National Security Council from 2017-2018.
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NICOSIA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The ECB will decide in December on the mechanism of prolonging its quantitative easing asset purchase programme, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Thursday.
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It is a dumping ground for whichever policymaker, think tank lanyard, or corporate CEO might want to publish some poorly-written—and self-serving—dreck about public policy that day.
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Sterling was the other big loser after Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders hinted at looser monetary policy if Brexit uncertainty remained prolonged against a backdrop of disappointing global growth.
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MADRID, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Europe's fiscal framework needs urgent improvement and the bloc should work towards union on it, European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez De Cos said on Monday.
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A senior BoE policymaker acknowledged the surprising resilience of the economy since the June referendum, while adding it was too soon to say what it meant for the longer term.
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"The program is facing some constraints and I think by the time we need to make a decision, the constraints should be out of the way," a third policymaker said.
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But some investors remained wary of buying the euro after another top European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker hinted at possible action next week, when the ECB holds its policy review.
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"The problem with bitcoin is that it could easily blow up and central banks could then be accused of not doing anything," European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny told Reuters.
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He is the third Fed policymaker in two days to weigh in on exactly what bonds the Fed should keep and why, following speeches by his counterparts in Chicago and Philadelphia.
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"In Europe, an increasing share of lending is provided by investment funds, insurance companies and the providers of consumer loans," the European Central Bank policymaker said in a speech in Helsinki.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Financial markets need to price in the growing risk that Britain could leave the European Union without a withdrawal agreement, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, July 7 (Reuters) - ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure defended on Sunday the nomination of Christine Lagarde to lead the European Central Bank, saying that she was "uniquely qualified".
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In prepared remarks for his Senate confirmation hearing released by the Fed on Monday, Powell, who is already a policymaker, defended the U.S. central bank's use of broad crisis-fighting powers.
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VIENNA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The euro's recent strength against the U.S. dollar is 'not helpful', European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Wednesday when asked about the currency's recent gains.
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What we're hearing: A source tells me to expect Liu He, top economic policymaker and Xi's point man for the trade negotiations, to come to D.C. after Thanksgiving for the talks.
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On Wednesday, ECB policymaker Ardo Hansson said euro zone inflation will eventually pick up as the economy grows, but the ECB needs to remain patient and remove stimulus only very gradually.
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The question of who will be the next president of the United States would be boring and meaningless if not for the fact that the president is an extremely influential policymaker.
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And the section of the minutes on risks and uncertainty shows that only one policymaker considers it more likely that future economic growth will be below current forecasts than above them.
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Rosengren, an historically dovish Fed policymaker who has become more confident about hiking rates, did not say whether he expects to back a rate hike this month or even this year.
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An incoming member of the BoE's rate-setting team, Jonathan Haskel, is set to replace a relatively hawkish policymaker and this week he signalled a more dovish tone than some expected.
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Prior to his role as a monetary policymaker, Fischer was chief economist at the World Bank, and first deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund during the Asian financial crisis.
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I think the one thing that every policymaker in the developed world is on the lookout for -- and they have the tools to do this -- is to ward off credit collapse.
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Analysts cited weekend comments from European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny and unease about this week's looming U.S. inflation numbers as reasons for the defensive mood in bond markets on Monday.
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The Economist: Having thought through a possible future so profoundly as a playwright, please now play the role of policymaker: what might be done to avert the dangers that you foresee?
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Axel Weber, UBS chairman and a former policymaker at the European Central Bank (ECB), has warned today's incumbents that monetary intervention is causing international spillovers and major disturbances in global markets.
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If Hillary Clinton becomes president and Democrats win the Senate, Warren will be able to start on this workplace agenda from the majority as a lead policymaker on the center-left.
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As it turns out he was just a horribly misguided policymaker, and didn't realize that the only Armageddon he was hastening was the one his own party is going through now.
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Liu He, a Politburo member who's perhaps Chinese President Xi Jinping's most trusted economic policymaker and likely vice-premier, led the PRC delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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On one hand, the Fed should address the financial market turmoil that's putting in doubt policymaker projections for four more rate hikes this year, Rosenberg said in a "Squawk Box " interview.
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"In the short term, Brexit is unfortunately the issue that will keep us busiest," said Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau, who is also a European Central Bank policymaker.
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Investors are pondering whether a rate hike is still likely this summer after an incoming Bank of England policymaker on Tuesday expressed caution over the impact of Brexit on Britain's economy.
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Whether you are an investor or policymaker, be careful about using what a pundit calls a bellwether unless you understand how well the bellwether actually predicts what you want to predict.
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AMSTERDAM/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Jens Weidmann called on Thursday for "patience" with bank monetary policy, warning that extraordinary stimulus loses its effect over time while increasing stability risk.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Deputy Governor Minouche Shafik became the third policymaker in the space of a week to warn that interest rates might rise sooner than financial markets imply.
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The Fed raised rates for the second time in three months on Wednesday and China hiked rates on Thursday, while Britain and a European Central Bank policymaker hinted at higher rates.
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We believe it reflects the trends for higher deductibles and cost-sharing over time, high launch prices, price increases, reported profits of the pharmaceutical industry and years of unrealized policymaker pledges.
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It built on those gains on Friday after BoE policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said "the appropriate time for a rise in Bank Rate might be as early as in the coming months".
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We are now in a world where the most mainstream of mainstream publications, USA Today, is comparing the ideas of a chief policymaker in the US government to those of ISIS.
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On that front, former BoE policymaker David Blanchflower was the latest voice to suggest the Bank may cut rates into negative territory in an article in the Guardian newspaper on Thursday.
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The Federal Reserve is on track to gradually raise interest rates given factors depressing inflation are "fading" and the U.S. economy's fundamentals are sound, an influential Fed policymaker said on Monday.
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Federal Reserve policymaker James Bullard said on Friday he is leaning towards supporting a rate rise in December, adding that a plethora of potential changes under Trump could affect future policy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Federal Reserve policymaker said on Thursday he expects more interest rate hikes this year than he previously predicted, thanks to fiscal stimulus and stronger U.S. economic growth.
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Kuroda's remarks are the strongest endorsement to date by a Japanese policymaker for the growing presence of AIIB, which some in Tokyo see as a vehicle to boost China's regional clout.
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Kashkari, one of two Fed policymakers to dissent on last month's Fed decision to raise interest rates, is the only Fed policymaker who uses Twitter regularly to signal his policy views.
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ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny told reporters on Wednesday the euro's recent strength against the dollar is "not helpful," which encouraged a bout of profit-taking before a policy meeting next week.
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"The existential danger to the nation is when the policymaker corrupts the role of the intelligence agencies, which is to provide unbiased and apolitical intelligence to inform policy," Mr. Wise said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's exit from its ongoing asset purchase program would largely depend on economic data, ECB policymaker and Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco said on Monday.
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The suspension of Woodford's fund could become a "very big problem" if it caused investors to doubt the integrity of the financial system, Bank of England policymaker Anil Kashyap said on Tuesday.
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The British pound fell for the fifth day in a row on Tuesday after a Bank of England policymaker said that more quantitative easing was probably necessary if Britain's economic decline worsens.
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PARIS - ECB policymaker and Bank of France governor Francois Villeroy is to open a conference at the French central bank entitled "Cybersecurity: coordinating protection of the financial sector in the global economy".
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PARIS, May 14 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's latest economic forecasts are still valid and its monetary policy stance appears to be appropriate, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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STOCKHOLM, May 3 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve might have to aim for inflation above 2 percent to achieve its 2 percent target, a top policymaker at the central bank said on Friday.
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Every Federal Reserve policymaker backed raising interest rates last month in a meeting where they also generally agreed borrowing costs were set to rise further, according to the minutes from the meeting.
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A Bank of Canada policymaker said earlier this month that the central bank will pay close attention to how the economy responds to both higher interest rates and a stronger Canadian dollar.
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The Federal Reserve can raise interest rates without threatening the U.S. economic recovery, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Tuesday, saying the central bank risks doing more harm by continued inaction.
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Dudley, an influential Fed policymaker, was asked to defend that position after a speech in which he waded deep into the debate over what policies the Trump administration should pursue next year.
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Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg worked in Bill Clinton's administration and is a bit of a protégé of Larry Summers, who was a senior economic policymaker under both Clinton and Obama.
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On Monday, European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Jens Weidmann said that the U.K. would lose its much-prized "passporting" rights unless Britain was at least part of the European Economic Area (EEA).
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The most important official, apart from the president himself, will be Liu He, a mild-mannered policymaker who has risen from relative obscurity to become Mr Xi's trusted adviser on the economy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Tuesday she expects a temporary hit to monthly U.S. job growth in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and its floods in Texas.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Britain's ramshackle exit from the European Union, with two ministers quitting the government on Monday, could damage economic growth in the euro zone, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said.
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LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Sterling topped $1.35 for the first time in 14 months as a Bank of England policymaker reiterated that the central bank could raise interest rates in "coming months".
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While the ECB's guidance for steady rates 'through' next summer is intentionally vague, policymaker said the wording means a decision only after the summer and not during one of the summer meetings.
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Both indexes pared some gains after outgoing BoE policymaker Kristin Forbes unexpectedly voted for a rise in interest rates and others signalled it would not take much for them to follow suit.
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Financial stocks were the worst hit, putting them on track for their biggest one-day fall since mid-May, after an influential Federal Reserve policymaker struck a dovish tone on interest rates.
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Let's hope another policymaker — one who is equally committed to making the program work better for individuals with disabilities and to protecting taxpayers' dollars — will take it up in the next Congress.
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The first matter that every policymaker should take into consideration, whether or not a peace deal is reached, is basic: Without financial support from international donors, the government of Afghanistan cannot survive.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The ECB's confidence that the rate of inflation will steadily rise toward its target justifies its decision to reduce bond purchases, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday.
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VIENNA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank and national central banks have been preparing for all eventualities linked to Brexit for quite some time, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Wednesday.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is working to better understand how the general public weighs the tradeoffs between inflation and unemployment, a top policymaker at the U.S. central bank said on Monday.
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The dollar was flat at 112.05 yen during Asian trade after losing 0.7 percent overnight, with mixed U.S. data and dovish comments from a U.S. Federal Reserve policymaker weighing on the dollar.
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Shortly after Clinger was nominated, a senior administration official touted his extensive experience with banking policy in a briefing call with reporters, while describing him as a pragmatic and well-informed policymaker.
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MADRID, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Central banks' main objective on climate challenges should be to allow markets to correctly assess the risks, European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Tuesday.
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The Federal Open Market Committee is expected to raise interest rates at its March meeting and at least two other times this year, according to the most recent policymaker forecasts in December.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's inflation target must be symmetric, flexible and credible with the general public rather than just financial markets, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday.
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Policymaker comments this week showed debate over tighter policy was still alive, helping push the crown towards the key 25 mark versus the euro from a 23-month high scaled on Tuesday.
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Economic growth and inflation took a hit from 3-2.13/2 years of Brexit uncertainty so a string of dismal data and dovish policymaker comment saw expectations for a cut swiftly build.
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PARIS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The European Union's top antitrust policymaker, Margrethe Vestager, is open to the idea of pan-European mergers in the telecoms market, Orange's boss Stéphane Richard said on Wednesday.
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No policymaker charged with the oversight of Puerto Rico wants to be perceived as being aligned against the interests of the over 3 million residents whose lives they are responsible to protect.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is likely to decide next week to ease its asset purchases while avoiding an abrupt cut in their volume, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Friday.
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The policymaker said he expects the U.S. economy will grow by about 2% next year, the unemployment rate will stay close to 3.5% and inflation will approach the Federal Reserve's 2% target.
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Three Fed policymakers on Tuesday expressed doubts about further rate hikes, with one influential policymaker calling for a delay in raising U.S. interest rates until the Fed is confident inflation will rebound.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is "not where we need to be" on increasing employment levels of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, a top economic policymaker said on Tuesday.
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In scenario D — "dystopian nightmare" — everything lines up just wrong: Policymaker and industry's eagerness leads to broad adoption of Level 4 automation, which totally redefines what it means to travel by car.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Interest rates may need move "a bit higher" if the U.S. economy performs as expected and dodges fears of a global slowdown, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Thursday.
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Prince Mohammed, effectively the kingdom's top economic policymaker, is not the first ruler to complain about the country's addiction to oil ("Saudi reform efforts wax and wane with oil prices," Reuters, February 2016).
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It added 0.5 percent against its perceived safe-haven counterpart, the Japanese yen, and regained ground against the high-flying euro as a top ECB policymaker cautioned against the single currency's recent rise.
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The RBI is happy for the investor base in government bonds to diversify, a senior policymaker said, and will monitor the market for any instances of manipulation or volatility tied to these investments.
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"I don't yet see the signal that suggests it's time to get worried about a downturn," George, a policymaker with a vote on the Fed's policy-setting panel this year, told CNBC cnb.
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ECB policymaker Klaas Knot said in an interview published by Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Sunday that inflation in the euro zone is not at the level the European Central Bank wants.
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Policymaker Michael Saunders, who has talked in recent months about the likely need for higher borrowing costs, was quoted as saying by Bloomberg that Brexit might stop the BoE from raising interest rates.
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Weak wage growth - a factor cited by both Carney and policymaker Andrew Haldane - was not a good enough reason to hold off from raising rates, given Britain's low productivity and other price pressures.
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Elsewhere, Australia's top policymaker Philip Lowe said on Tuesday the Reserve Bank of Australia would consider the case for lower interest rates at its June policy meeting, pushing the 0.54% lower to $0.687.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank rates could remain low unless other policy areas start contributing, raising the risk that they could increasingly hit their effective lower limit, a top policymaker said on Saturday.
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Speaking the same morning that U.S. retail sales numbers came up well short of market expectations, the central bank policymaker said she's watching the developments in an economy that has otherwise looked strong.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks need to be ready to meet evolving demand for virtual currencies but with digital versions of cash rather than bitcoin-style cryptocurrencies, ECB policymaker Yves Mersch said on Thursday.
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However, Dutch ECB policymaker Klaas Knot said on Wednesday the weakness in euro zone is not significant enough for the central bank to alter its policy path, even if the outlook remains uncertain.
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Yellen did not specify how much of an inflation overshoot the Fed would tolerate, though past policymaker comments suggest that 2.25 percent or 2.5 percent inflation would be acceptable to the central bank.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Ditching the euro to return to the franc would increase French borrowing costs, European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau warned in a column for Le Figaro published on Monday.
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve does not need to cut interest rates as part of its strategy to keep inflation close to its 2 percent target, a Fed policymaker said on Tuesday.
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The policymaker said he thinks rates are currently neutral or "slightly accommodative" and that he doesn't think lower rates will be enough to encourage spending from businesses being held back by trade uncertainty.
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Given the role that the vice president inevitably plays, it is vital that we think about how this individual will be as an influential policymaker, not just as part of the campaign ticket.
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The policymaker, who also sits on the governing council of of the European Central Bank, said he expected the country to show signs of returning to growth in the second half of 2016.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker and presidential hopeful Jens Weidmann said on Sunday he saw no need for the ECB to change its policy at present, despite a weaker euro zone economy.
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SAN JUAN (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is in "a very good place" and the likelihood of a recession in 2019 or 2020 is "not elevated," a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Thursday.
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Sara Hutchinson Ratcliffe is vice president of the domestic program at Catholics for Choice, where she develops and implements U.S. activities, including policymaker education, legislative analysis, advocacy, outreach and relationships with collegial organizations.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Italian voters' defeat of a referendum on constitutional reforms cannot be compared to Britain's vote to leave the European Union, European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday.
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ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny warned that inflation might turn negative in the months ahead, while Draghi said that inflation dynamics are tangibly weaker than the ECB had expected at the end of 230.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could set itself a more flexible inflation target given how difficult it has been to boost prices, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said in remarks published on Sunday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - It is important that there be a rapid solution on Brexit after Britain's parliament rejected the deal negotiated between London and Brussels, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Wednesday.
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The government's takeover of the debt-ridden Anbang Insurance Group sent a blunt warning against corporate debt, and he is sending his top economic policymaker to Washington this week to address trade frictions.
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BEIJING — President Xi Jinping of China is sending his top economic policymaker to Washington on Tuesday in a bid to reduce trans-Pacific trade tensions before China's congress convenes for its annual session.
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Before becoming secretary of education, DeVos had never worked as an educator or a policymaker; she was a donor to education reform efforts favored by the right, such as school choice and vouchers.
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However, traders now see a 90% chance the ECB will cut rates next week too, though a central bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau on Tuesday called on governments for more fiscal help.
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Kristin Forbes, an M.I.T. economist and a former Bank of England policymaker, faced the knotty task of setting policy for the British economy at a time when economic data was sending conflicting signals.
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HELSINKI, March 20 (Reuters) - European governments need to act quicker to combat the coronavirus crisis, and above all agree on a common safe asset, European Central Bank policymaker Olli Rehn said on Friday.
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"The two sides of his political persona — serious policymaker and snarling partisan — are at war on a campaign trail littered with false charges, invective and mental confusion," the newspaper said of Mr. Stark.
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Though one policymaker last month voted to hike rates, the outgoing Kristin Forbes, most BoE rate-setters have noted how slowly wages are growing, which would be a reason to keep rates low.
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The forint has firmed from repeated record lows since a central bank policymaker said earlier this month the bank will use all its tools if needed to rein in higher-than-expected inflation.
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Resistance from global investors and Western advisers forced the company's leadership to settle for a valuation below the target of $2 trillion set by the kingdom's chief policymaker, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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A bipartisan group of senators and representatives has also released the Office of Technology Assessment Improvement and Enhancement Act, which seeks to make the Office of Technology Assessment more responsive to policymaker needs.
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Any of us—worker, manager, technologist, policymaker—can look for ways to handle the technologies that both preserve the benefits of on-ramp jobs and deliver the productivity gains we're all hoping for.
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The UK currency built on those gains on Friday after BoE policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said "the appropriate time for a rise in Bank Rate might be as early as in the coming months".
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Governor Mark Carney said two weeks ago that he expected the BoE to give the economy more help over the summer, but only one policymaker, Gertjan Vlieghe, backed a rate cut this month.
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In Paris, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said the bank was confident inflation is on the right track although the specter of protectionism and other risks were adding to broader economic uncertainty.
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Sterling retreated from a one-month high against the dollar after the minutes from the Bank of England's latest policy meeting showed the lone policymaker voting for a rate hike dropped his call.
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Southern European government bonds outperformed their higher-rated peers as another ECB policymaker warned that inflation in the euro zone is still proving elusive, a potential hurdle to the withdrawal of monetary stimulus.
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The pound lost 0.45 percent on Tuesday after an incoming Bank of England policymaker expressed caution over Britain's readiness for higher interest rates and uncertainty over the impact of Brexit on the economy.
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In a separate development, Latvia's government increased pressure on central bank boss Ilmars Rimsevics, an ECB policymaker, to quit after he was detained by police over the weekend in an anti-corruption probe.
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In a speech last week, the nation's top monetary policymaker, Fed Chair Janet Yellen, floated some ideas that sound a lot like the ones Kocherlakota has been championing over the past four years.
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NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's exit from its ongoing asset purchase program would largely depend on economic data, ECB policymaker and Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco said on Monday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Central banks should take into account climate change risks not only as part of ensuring financial stability but also when setting monetary policy, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday.
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LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Complacency is the biggest risk facing Britain's huge banking sector, according to Colette Bowe, who is due to start her role as a Bank of England policymaker later this year.
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Jeff Sessions, emerged from his confirmation hearings largely unscathed, facing tough questions about his past and saying that as attorney general, he would eschew the more partisan posture he has taken as a policymaker.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is ready to reintroduce monetary support measures if required, policymaker Olli Rehn said on Wednesday, while hitting out at calls from Italy for it to guarantee countries' debt.
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BOSTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is working to better understand how the general public weighs the tradeoffs between inflation and unemployment, a top policymaker at the U.S. central bank said on Monday.
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Still, if you are a security policymaker of a nation like India — with several times the population of the US — wouldn't you worry about how many major militaries have back doors into your networks?
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SHIZUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Bank of Japan policymaker Makoto Sakurai on Thursday warned against "recklessly" ramping up stimulus just to prop up prices, blaming soft inflation on structural factors that were positive for the economy.
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"I don't yet see the signal that suggests it's time to get worried about a downturn," George, a policymaker with a vote on the Fed's policy-setting panel this year, told CNBC https://cnb.
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"If you're a policymaker right now in 2019 and you want to know which tax breaks that we enacted are reducing Amazon's effective tax rate, you cannot find out with this information," says Gardner.
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ECB President Mario Draghi has defended the bank and, this weekend, ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure hit back at critics, defending the bank's policies in a column in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper, Reuters reported.
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ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau has already said the bank may have to alter its march toward a more normal policy stance if protectionism, exchange rates or market swings end up depressing inflation.
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NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) - The United States is "not where we need to be" on increasing employment levels of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, a top economic policymaker said on Tuesday.
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The dollar rose as minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest meeting showed that every Fed policymaker backed raising interest rates last month and also generally agreed that borrowing costs were set to rise further.
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The pound rose to a two-week high after as the U.S. dollar fell and a top policymaker said the Bank of England should press ahead with an interest rate hike to curb inflation.
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The FTSE 100 index was flat in percentage terms, pressured by a stronger sterling, which jumped on Thursday after outgoing Bank of England policymaker Kristin Forbes unexpectedly voted for a rise in interest rates.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Ardo Hansson said he has not considered succeeding ECB President Mario Draghi when his job comes up next year, according to an interview in German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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Rosengren, an historically dovish Fed policymaker who has become more confident about hiking rates this year, cited Britain's vote to leave the European Union as an example of U.S. resistance to shocks from abroad.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The European Union needs to issue joint bonds to strengthen its capital markets union project and to make the euro stronger, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Thursday.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A top Chinese policymaker has called for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to continue their overseas expansion despite the intensifying trade dispute with the United States and increasing scrutiny of Chinese firms abroad.
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New York Fed President William Dudley, an influential monetary policymaker who was citing research from his institution, pointed to rising costs of higher education and student debt burdens as culprits in the troubling trend.
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Three Federal Reserve policymakers on Tuesday expressed doubts about further rate hikes, with one influential policymaker calling for a delay in raising U.S. interest rates until the central bank is confident inflation will rebound.
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PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - The world's financial regulators will not sacrifice customers' security for the sake of innovation, Bank of France head and European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday.
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Michael Saunders, a policymaker who has talked in recent months about the likely need for higher borrowing costs, was quoted as saying by Bloomberg that Brexit might stop the BOE from raising interest rates.
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MADRID (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy said on Monday it was more important after Britain's vote to leave the European Union for the euro area to develop an attractive single financial market.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Central banks should not only be independent from political pressures but also from short-term pressures such as financial markets' perceptions of inflation, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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A fellow hawkish Fed policymaker, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, made an about-turn earlier this week saying it would be "unwise" to raise rates further given U.S. inflation data and global volatility.
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But on Tuesday, sterling fell half a percent when economics professor John Haskel, who replaces a policymaker who has called for higher interest rates, said he was wary of slack in the labour market.
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The pound fell for the fifth day in a row after a Bank of England policymaker said the central bank will probably have to loosen monetary policy further if the U.K.'s economy worsens.
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Trump hasn't hesitated to unleash fury on his Fed chairman, who the President described as a "threat" in a Wall Street Journal interview last month -- a highly unusual political attack on an independent policymaker.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Persistent weakness in euro zone manufacturing raises the risk of other sectors of the economy being infected, extending the currency bloc's recent downturn, European Central Bank policymaker Yves Mersch said on Monday.
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The median forecast in the "dot plot" of policymaker expectations for interest rates this year rose to 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent, up from a previous median projection of 2 percent to 2.25 percent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Kristin Forbes said the latest economic data suggested Britain's economy would grow faster than the central bank had forecast last month, with momentum potentially carrying through into 2017.
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The slowdown in euro zone growth is not dramatic and the European Central Bank can still end its bond purchase scheme this year, ECB policymaker Vitas Vasiliauskas told German newspaper Boersen-Zeitung on Tuesday.
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Trump's criticisms of the central bank's chief policymaker kicked into high gear Monday, not long after Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinFive key players in Trump's trade battles Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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The pound had dropped 0.45 percent on Tuesday after an incoming Bank of England policymaker expressed caution over Britain's readiness for higher interest rates and uncertainty over the impact of Brexit on the economy.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should speed up its exit from "crisis-mode" monetary policy, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Sunday, reiterating his hawkish line about the timing of potential rate hikes.
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Investing in education, including by raising teacher salaries to a professional wage in order to recruit and retain a talented and diverse workforce, is one of the smartest decisions a state policymaker can make.
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"Turbines are manufactured in the U.S., and other components are manufactured in the U.S. I don't see what could drive a policymaker to hurt the industry in the U.S.," by cutting renewable energy programs.
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Eight Taiwanese local government officials, mainly representing counties controlled by the China-friendly opposition Nationalist Party, were promised greater tourism and agricultural ties when they met China's top Taiwan policymaker in Beijing last month.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will decide at a later time whether to raise interest rates before or after ending its bond purchase program, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny told a newspaper on Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should wind down its stimulus program after September as it has reached its inflation goal, ECB policymaker Klaas Knot, a staunch critic of the scheme, said on Wednesday.
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Another ECB policymaker, Ewald Nowotny, told a newspaper on Thursday that the bank was still to decide whether raise interest rates - also a potential positive for the currency - before ending its bond purchase programme.
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Mr. Williams, the 55-year-old president of the San Francisco Fed, is a respected economist and an influential policymaker whose research has drawn praise even from some people critical of his possible selection.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Relaunching the European Central Bank's bond purchasing program is open to debate at the current juncture, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said in an interview released on Tuesday, questioning its merit.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that the New York Fed board of directors had recommended Williams, a long time Fed economist and policymaker, to succeed William Dudley as New York Fed president.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Federal Reserve policymaker on Tuesday expressed skepticism that a U.S. interest rate cut is the right move until there are more signs the economy is moving to a truly weaker path.
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The pound shed 0.6% in early trading after another Bank of England policymaker, Gertjan Vlieghe, said on Sunday that he would vote for an interest rate cut this month unless economic data improved significantly.
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The euro was up 0.5 percent at a one-year high of $1.1373 with FX traders waiting for another flurry of ECB policymaker speeches at a conference hosted by the central bank in Portugal.
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It added 0.5 percent against its perceived safe-haven Japanese counterpart the yen and clawed back ground against the high-flying euro as an ECB policymaker flagged caution about the single currency's recent rise.
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NEW YORK, Oct 16 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Klaas Knot called on Wednesday for a "symmetric band" around the ECB's inflation target to give it more time and flexibility when setting monetary policy.
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The ECB was quick to distance itself from recent comments by policymaker Ewald Nowotny that he would have "no problem" with lifting the deposit rate up 20 basis points to get rate hikes rolling.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Euro zone growth could exceed projections if global risks abate, European Central Bank policymaker Olli Rehn said on Wednesday, noting that the ECB still has tools to stimulate the economy, if needed.
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Javed Ali is a Towsley policymaker in residence at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and has over 20 years professional experience in Washington, DC on national security issues.
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This legislation is as bipartisan as they come, but if there's one thing that any policymaker quickly learns, it's that passage of any legislation through both chambers of Congress is never a sure thing.
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Some analysts said the deal reflected efforts by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's chief policymaker, to ease tensions with countries in the region, perhaps to nurture an improved environment for economic growth.
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Sterling was the other big loser in early London trading after Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders hinted at looser monetary policy if Brexit uncertainty remained prolonged against a backdrop of disappointing global growth.
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PARIS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's inflation target must be symmetric, flexible and credible with the general public rather than just financial markets, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday.
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Sterling also had a lift after Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty told The Times newspaper the central bank should consider unwinding its 435 billion pound ($562 billion) quantitative easing programme earlier than planned.
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PARIS (Reuters) - ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that while consolidation within the euro zone's banking sector was desirable, it was up to individual banks to decide on which tie-ups to pursue.
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The policymaker said there is still not a set timeline for the launch of the faster payments service it is developing, known as FedNow, and that it could be ready in 2023 or 2024.
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"If the Fed cuts rates, the BOJ and the ECB must do something more powerful to contain currency appreciation," said Sayuri Shirai, a former BOJ policymaker who is currently professor at Japan's Keio University.
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Elsewhere, Australia's top policymaker Philip Lowe said on Tuesday the Reserve Bank of Australia would consider the case for lower interest rates at its June policy meeting, pushing the Aussie dollar 0.54% lower to $0.687.
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The machinery orders, which come a day before data expected to show the economy resumed expansion in the second quarter due to robust consumer spending and capital expenditure, may heighten policymaker concerns about future growth.
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"I think there is an important distinction here between healthy skepticism which policymakers -- to include policymaker No. 1 -- should always have on intelligence, but I think there's a difference between skepticism and disparagement," he said.
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After raising its benchmark interest rate once this year, by a quarter percentage point at its last policy meeting in March, the median Fed policymaker forecast is for two more rate increases by year-end.
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"These include particularly improving the protection of intellectual property and also tackling distortions created by state-owned companies and subsidies," Weidmann, also a European Central Bank policymaker, told Reuters in an interview conducted by email.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Regular interest-rate hikes are needed to avoid overheating a U.S. economy in which inflation is only temporarily weak and unemployment is headed yet lower, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Wednesday.
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Almost every Federal Reserve policymaker said Trump's promises of tax cuts and infrastructure spending could stoke higher inflation and require faster interest rate hikes, the minutes of the central bank's December meeting showed on Wednesday.
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Slovak central bank governor Jozef Makuch, an ECB policymaker, announced plans last year to quit the post early and finance minister Pater Kazimir is expected take over at the bank in the next few months.
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Sakurai is the first BOJ policymaker to publicly admit negative rates have flattened the yield curve more than hoped for, a sign the central bank is becoming more mindful of the cost of its policies.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve can raise interest rates without threatening the U.S. economic recovery, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Tuesday, saying the central bank risks doing more harm by continued inaction.
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"My sense was we've added accommodation and it wasn't required in my view," George, a policymaker with a vote on the Fed's policy-setting panel this year, told CNBC in an interview aired on Thursday.
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Before the meeting closed Ottmar Edenhofer, a veteran German climate policymaker who is director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, feared Katowice risked marking "the beginning of the end of the Paris agreement".
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Germany's 10-year borrowing costs are more than double what they were in late June, when the bloc's top policymaker, Mario Draghi, said he was open to policy tweaks in a speech in Sintra, Portugal.
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Anil Kashyap, a Bank of England policymaker, said last month that Trump's nomination for the powerful role of Fed Vice Chair in charge of banking supervision would shape the U.S. approach to international rule-making.
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The Canadian central bank hiked interest rates this month and left the door open for more tightening, while a BoE policymaker hinted last week that it might need to raise rates in the coming months.
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Federal Reserve policymaker James Bullard is leaning towards supporting an interest rate increase in December, he said on Friday, adding that a plethora of potential changes under incoming president Donald Trump could affect future policy.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Latvia violated European Union law by barring from office its central bank governor, who is also a European Central Bank policymaker, the advocate general of the European Court of Justice argued on Wednesday.
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On Tuesday night, April 4, Young will conduct a conversation with artist and activist Rachel Schragis, whose collage representing the 2014 People's Climate March is included in the exhibition, and scientist and policymaker Irina Feygina.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia (Reuters) - Several European Central Bank policymaker urged patience with its monetary policy on Friday, supporting expectations that the bank will adapt a wait-and-see stance at its next meeting on June 2.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The uncertainty being generated by U.S. trade tariffs is already hurting investment in the global economy and could do serious damage to world growth, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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Citi analysts said in a note that rising investor and policymaker confidence in the global economy heading into the second half of the year is likely to pressure demand for gold as a safe haven.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The economic choices of Italy's new government remain largely uncertain and all euro zone countries must stick to the bloc's rules, European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should not keep interest rates low for too long and should tighten policy quickly during an economic upturn, ECB policymaker Jens Weidmann said in an interview published on Thursday.
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The center of gravity in the pro-market camp is Alexei Kudrin, who was finance minister for 11 years before he quit five years ago when Putin declined to make him the paramount economy policymaker.
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William Dudley, a key architect of the Fed's crisis response and a core policymaker, plans to step down as New York Fed president by mid-year, hastening an unprecedented leadership transition at the central bank.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The need for the European Central Bank to give financial markets an extended guidance on future interest rate moves will diminish once inflation bounces back enough, ECB policymaker Olli Rehn said on Thursday.
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The following day, policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe largely echoed that message in a move seen as significant because he has been regarded as one of the most dovish members of the rate-setting monetary policy committee.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Decisions about the future of the ECB's asset purchase program could be made at more than just its December meeting, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said in an interview published on Thursday.
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But analysts said that the window for a hike could close after August as Britain works out how to exit the European Union and policymaker John Haskel replaces the hawkish Ian McCafferty on Sept. 1.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Federal Reserve policymaker, Charles Evans of the Chicago Fed, repeated on Thursday that he supports gradual interest rate hikes and expects an economic boost from U.S. President Donald Trump's planned fiscal policies.
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FRANKFURT, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymaker James Bullard is leaning towards supporting an interest rate increase in December and argued on Friday that the real question now is the Fed's rate path in 2017.
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The British pound was bolstered after Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale said there was no urgent need to cut interest rates and pointed to problems with both more cuts and any further quantitative easing.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe's political establishment needs to match the European Central Bank's bold stimulus move with a similarly ambitious fiscal package to ease the bloc's crisis, ECB policymaker Peter Kazimir said on Twitter on Thursday.
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Once you make that assumption, as virtually every US policymaker seems to, then threatening North Korea with force starts to make much more sense — as both negotiations and sanctions have failed to stop their program.
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BRATISLAVA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Slovakia's central bank governor and the European Central Bank policymaker Peter Kazimir said he supported the bank's package of measures on Thursday including a decision to resume the bond-buying programme.
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The pound dipped to $1.3043 after Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said he will vote for a cut in interest rates later this month, barring an "imminent and significant" improvement in the growth data.
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Michael Saunders, a BoE policymaker who voted to raise rates in August, said last week the Bank was "not indifferent" to the value of sterling but there was no particular level that worries the Bank.
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"I just caution that you don't want to overreact to volatility in the markets if you're a monetary policymaker," Mester told reporters following an appearance at the National Association for Business Economics conference in Washington.
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While the Fed's No. 2 policymaker did not address when the U.S. central bank should next raise interest rates, analysts said his comments could augur a hawkish outlook from Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Friday.
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Sterling also fell weakened to a two-week low of $1.2269 after Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders hinted at looser monetary policy if Brexit uncertainty remained prolonged against a backdrop of disappointing global growth.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Britain could have benefited from a higher inflation target than the 2% level first set in 2003, though any change now would carry costs, Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro said on Tuesday.
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Vliegh's comments come after policymaker Silvana Tenreyro on Friday inclined towards an interest rate cut in the coming months, adding to suggestions that the central bank is edging towards pumping more stimulus into the economy.
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In a separate case before the European Court, the ECB alleges Latvian authorities broke the law by keeping the country's central bank governor from fulfilling his role as an ECB policymaker because of bribery allegations.
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In a first clear sign that the BoE is considering a cut, policymaker Michael Saunders said it may need to cut interest rates in the likely scenario that high levels of uncertainty over Brexit persist.
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PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's monetary policy should remain as it is, as economic conditions in the euro zone steady, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday in an interview.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's accommodative monetary policy will continue until inflation expectations return clearly close enough to 2% and its effects are visible on core inflation, Finnish policymaker Olli Rehn said on Thursday.
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BRATISLAVA, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Euro zone growth may be stuck in low gear until the bloc deals with a host of structural challenges, European Central Bank policymaker Peter Kazimir told a news conference on Tuesday.
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SOUTHAMPTON, England (Reuters) - British economic data for April was weak but not unexpected after a first-quarter boost to the economy from stockbuilding ahead of Brexit, Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders said on Monday.
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"If the Fed cuts rates, the BOJ and the ECB must do something more powerful to contain currency appreciation," said Sayuri Shirai, a former BOJ policymaker who is currently a professor at Japan's Keio University.
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In the first and boldest criticism made publicly by a BOJ policymaker, Sato said negative rates could hurt Japan's banking system by hitting financial institutions' already narrowing margins and could even cause them to reduce lending.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Investors have all but ruled out the chances of an interest rate hike from the European Central Bank over the next year given dovish policymaker comments, a surge in the euro and subdued inflation.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Underlying inflation in the euro zone will need time to accelerate and support the rise in headline inflation, European Central Bank policymaker Erkki Liikanen said in a presentation to the Finnish parliament on Tuesday.
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Harker's comments make him the second Fed policymaker this week to say cutting the balance sheet is now on the horizon, giving another signal the Fed could tighten monetary policy more aggressively under the Trump administration.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Kristin Forbes said the central bank had no concrete evidence that softer British economic data was all down to uncertainty around June's Brexit referendum, in an interview published on Friday.
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George, the only policymaker to dissent against the Fed's decision last month to leave rates unchanged at the fifth straight policy meeting, said she is "not convinced" that a fundamental rethink is necessary at this point.
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Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, seen as one of the candidates for the top policymaker position, has consistently argued against the ECB's 230 trillion euro bond-buying scheme that pushed yields to record lows in recent years.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The inflation rate in the euro zone remains too low, and that justifies maintaining an active monetary policy, European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau told a business conference in Germany on Friday.
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ALPBACH, Austria (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is doing significantly better than the euro zone, so the Federal Reserve's debate about raising interest rates is not relevant for Europe, a European Central Bank policymaker said on Friday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's economy has weakened but it is too early for major economic stimulus from the government or the European Central Bank, Bundesbank President and ECB policymaker Jens Weidmann was quoted as saying on Saturday.
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DUSHANBE, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Tajikistan's central bank considers the local somoni currency undervalued and sees no grounds for its depreciation, a senior policymaker said on Wednesday, despite reported foreign currency shortages in the Central Asian nation.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro said on Tuesday that the central bank should wait to see the impact of an interest rate increase it made in August before deciding on its next move.
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Just days after Britain restarted its monetary easing to head off any economic fallout from Brexit, a top Bank of England policymaker said more bond-buying was likely to be required if the outlook declines further.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is strong despite trade tensions, and data showing tame inflation pressure are no sign that policymakers are falling short of their goals, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers should take advantage of low interest rates by making infrastructure investments and encouraging innovations that boost productivity, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Tuesday as Americans voted in a presidential election.
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Clinton's criticism reflected the fact that a presidential candidate draws infinitely more scrutiny than a businessman and that the host of issues and decisions a real estate developer has confronted don't match that of a policymaker.
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One policymaker at the meeting argued that inflation was close to a sustained adjustment towards the ECB's target, a precondition for ending asset buys, but the majority said there was insufficient evidence for such a conclusion.
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Powell is a current policymaker and is seen by Fed followers as a Yellen-style pragmatist and less likely to sharply raise interest rates than some of the other candidates to have been in the running.
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Former BoE policymaker Danny Blanchflower - who voted against the BoE's last hike in 2007, and has been regularly critical of suggestions to tighten policy since - has been scathing about the idea of a UK hike now.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Outgoing Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty said on Wednesday that it was hard to see how Britain would strengthen its trading ties as a result of its decision to leave the European Union.
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Further pressure on the U.S. equity market came after Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, a historically dovish policymaker, said the U.S. central bank faced increasing risks if it waited too much longer to raise interest rates.
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The dollar fell for a fourth day on the latest batch of soft U.S. data, while comments from a U.S. Federal Reserve policymaker on Wednesday were viewed as a sign further rate hikes could be delayed.
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The North Korean team was led by Ri Su Yong, a former vice foreign minister and now vice chairman of the ruling Workers' Party, and included for the first time top economic policymaker O Su Yong.
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The two-year Treasury yield rose to a post-Brexit high of 0.453 percent after Fischer, the Fed's No. 2 policymaker, said he thought the central bank was close to achieving its employment and inflation targets.
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"In the global environment - and due in particular to this trade issue - the risks are more on the downward side and a little bit worrying," European Central Bank policymaker Jan Smets said in a CNBC interview.
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More details: Liu, who is also a Politburo member, is perhaps the most influential economic policymaker in Beijing and is expected to become a Vice Premier at the National People's Congress in a couple of weeks.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The pound fell versus the dollar on Tuesday after an incoming Bank of England policymaker expressed caution over Britain's readiness for higher interest rates and uncertainty over the impact of Brexit on the economy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Inflation is showing signs it could accelerate in the United States, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said in comments that back the view that the central bank will hike interest rates again this year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Bank of England policymaker who last month voted to raise interest rates was quoted as saying on Tuesday that he was "reasonably confident" that investment and exports would compensate for a consumer slowdown.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Bank of England policymaker charged with overseeing the banking sector said he had big concerns about the risk of British banks being hurt by trouble among their peers elsewhere in the European Union.
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Urjit Patel - the architect of a switch to formally target inflation, among other changes - is likely to stay on as a deputy governor when his three-year term ends next week, government and policymaker sources said.
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On Tuesday, a Bank of England policymaker who last month voted to raise interest rates was quoted as saying on Tuesday that he was "reasonably confident" that investment and exports would compensate for a consumer slowdown.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should start reviewing in June its pledge for continued, ultra-easy policy if economic data confirm that the recovery is becoming durable, ECB policymaker Vitas Vasiliauskas told Reuters on Thursday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's cash lifeline for banks might do more harm than good if it simply defers a struggling lender's demise while its situation keeps worsening, ECB policymaker Klaas Knot said on Friday.
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Mr. Powell faces the tricky task of trying to keep growth going, and his success as the nation's most powerful economic policymaker will depend on his ability to judge the various risks to the current expansion.
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NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - There may be an argument for the Federal Reserve to provide more stimulus to counteract weak inflation pressures and uncertainty over U.S. trade policy, a central bank policymaker said on Wednesday.
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Now, as a top Chinese policymaker meets with the Trump administration this week in hopes of heading off a trade war, Washington and Beijing are anticipating a time when they don't need each other so much.
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The nation's treasurer is not a policymaker but rather is in charge of maintaining the general ledger of government funds; handling claims for lost, stolen or forged government checks; and redeeming and destroying worn-out currency.
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The pound slipped 0.6% to $1.2995 after Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said he will vote for a cut in interest rates later this month, barring an "imminent and significant" improvement in the growth data.
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The pound dipped 0.24% to $1.3028 after Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said he will vote for a cut in interest rates later this month, barring an "imminent and significant" improvement in the growth data.
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But this framework of keeping the 10-year yield near zero is not economically reasonable because this level discourages lending, former central bank policymaker Sayuri Shirai said on Friday at a Breakingviews seminar hosted by Reuters.
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Sterling slipped 210 percent to $20.3 after Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty said in an op-ed for the Times that more quantitative easing was likely to be required if the UK's economic decline worsens.
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NEW YORK, May 15 - Strong U.S. economic growth and restrained inflation mean there is no argument for a rate hike or cut right now, though business confidence is fragile, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Wednesday.
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The influential policymaker said governments around the world need to be thinking about what they can do to support the economy during a downturn, especially at a time when interest rates are low around the globe.
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"Brexit presents an inconvenience to their operations but also an opportunity to wrangle tax and rule changes to stay," according to Robert Jenkins, a professor at London Business School and a former Bank of England policymaker.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should take climate change into account in the way it runs monetary policy, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday, backing a suggestion from the bank's incoming chief.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has not reached yet the "reversal (interest) rate", where any more cuts would hurt rather than stimulate the economy, ECB policymaker Pablo Hernández de Cos said on Tuesday.
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The pound dipped 0.18% to $1.3035 after Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said he will vote for a cut in interest rates later this month, barring an "imminent and significant" improvement in the growth data.
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The pound slipped 0.86% to $1.2963 after Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said he will vote for a cut in interest rates later this month, barring an "imminent and significant" improvement in the growth data.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Euro zone banks and insurers need to prepare in case Britain opts for so-called hard Brexit where it loses access to EU financial markets, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday.
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Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale said in an interview on Tuesday that even if the central bank cut rates next week, it would be unlikely to boost the economy before the end of the year.
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The common currency slipped on Wednesday as ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny told reporters the euro's recent strength against the dollar is "not helpful," which encouraged a bout of profit-taking before a policy meeting next week.
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LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The Bank of England has not overstepped the mark in regulating lenders and interventions in politically sensitive sectors like housing have been modest rather than revolutionary, a BoE policymaker said on Tuesday.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept 25 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is on track to gradually raise interest rates given factors depressing inflation are "fading" and the U.S. economy's fundamentals are sound, an influential Fed policymaker said on Monday.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is now "normal" and its labor market is roughly "at full health," a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Friday in repeating his support for two more interest-rate hikes this year.
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The Swiss franc remains "highly valued" with the currency sought by investors as a safe haven investment, Maechler said in the last public appearance of a policymaker before the SNB's quarterly rates review on Dec. 12.
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Warsh, meanwhile, became the target of an aggressive grassroots campaign that highlighted what some critics viewed as a history of bad calls on inflation during his tenure as a Fed policymaker, portending a tough confirmation fight.
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Federal Reserve policymaker on Monday said that a rate cut may be needed "soon," the strongest signal yet that the central bank may change course as trade tensions threaten the U.S. economy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - International trade binds economies together and has become more important over the years, and developments in one country can spill over into the stability of others, an influential Federal Reserve policymaker said on Thursday.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve kicked things off this week with an interest rate hike on Wednesday, China followed with its own hike on Thursday, and then Britain and a European Central Bank policymaker hinted at higher rates.
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New York Fed directors leading the search for a successor to chief William Dudley, seen as the second most influential policymaker at the U.S. central bank, invited the guests to last week's meeting to seek their advice.
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"The policy rate may need to depart from the natural rate if the policymaker is faced with a shock that creates a trade off - for example between bringing inflation to target and smoothing output volatility," Cunliffe said.
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An influential Federal Reserve policymaker appears to want the Fed to adopt wholesale changes to the way it targets inflation, urging a new framework that would encourage higher prices and provide more flexibility in U.S. economic downturns.
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But with wage growth proving sluggish - and one Bank of England policymaker saying on Friday that inflation could hit 3 percent later this year - many households are likely to find their incomes are falling in real terms.
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If we view the meta-analysis as the "gold standard" in our current era of "evidence-based medicine," how is the average doctor or policymaker or even patient to react when two gold standards contradict each other?
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Javed Ali is a former Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and has more than 20 years of professional experience in Washington, D.C. on national security issues.
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The U.S. economy's fundamentals are solid and growth this year should pick up to around 2.5 percent, but the Federal Reserve's current 'wait and see' approach to monetary policy is appropriate, a Fed policymaker said on Monday.
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Friedman advocated freely floating exchange rates, because he thought that no policymaker would know better than the market where to set the right rate—yet he himself could not resist the temptation to second-guess the market.
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Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George, a policymaker with a vote on the Fed's policy-setting panel this year, also said she does not yet see a signal of a downturn in the U.S. economy.
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Translation: George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer (head economic policymaker) and Cameron's right-hand man, was widely viewed as a likely successor to Cameron, just as Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair after serving as his chancellor.
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - When the U.S. Federal Reserve's newest policymaker Neel Kashkari dropped a bombshell with a call to break up big banks on Tuesday, it was met with a predictably indignant response from their lobbyists.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty said on Wednesday that the central bank was in no rush to wind down its stockpile of government bonds amassed under its quantitative easing stimulus program for Britain's economy.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A top U.S. monetary policymaker on Thursday made it clear he would not support a rate hike this month and set a high bar for supporting any move even at the Federal Reserve's June meeting.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Some improvement in euro zone economic data suggests the bloc's slowdown may be ending but it is still too early to tell, European Central Bank policymaker Ardo Hansson said in an interview published on Friday.
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Sterling rose to a six-day high against the dollar after the Bank's policymakers voted unanimously to keep interest rates on hold, pouring cold water on talk that at least one policymaker might vote for a cut.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve's newest policymaker and a former point man for the government's bailout of the financial industry on Tuesday called on lawmakers to take radical action to rein in banks and protect taxpayers.
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Earlier in the meeting Ottmar Edenhofer, a veteran German climate policymaker who is director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, had feared that Katowice would mark "the beginning of the end of the Paris agreement".
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In a remark that seems to confirm economists' expectations, ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure said on Friday that interest rates were set to remain at low levels as long as needed to bring inflation back to its target.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's shock win in the U.S. election has not roiled markets as expected and a subsequent rise in inflation expectations is welcomed by its central bank, Federal Reserve policymaker James Bullard said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares closed flat to slightly higher on Friday, recouping earlier heavy losses as comments from an influential U.S. policymaker soothed some concerns about rising borrowing costs and the threat of a U.S. government shutdown.
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Sterling shed 2 percent against the yen and hit a two-week low against the euro after Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale said he had dropped his opposition to policy easing and now favoured immediate stimulus. .
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's monetary policy is providing a "yardstick of predictability" as European countries go through a new cycle of elections next year, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau told the Wall Street Journal.
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MADRID (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Monday that the central bank might need to look into whether downside risks to growth it had so far deemed temporary were becoming more persistent.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Completion of the European banking union should be a priority as the region approaches elections in May, European Central Bank policymaker and governor of the Bank of Spain Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Friday.
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China's president is considering a provincial official to succeed Zhou Xiaochuan, a veteran policymaker who has led the central bank since 2002 and whom analysts regard as a champion of reforms that could falter without his leadership.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymaker James Bullard is leaning toward supporting an interest rate increase in December, he said on Friday, adding that a plethora of potential changes under incoming president Donald Trump could affect future policy.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - The risk of euro zone recession remains very low as Germany, the bloc's biggest economy, is showing resilience and some recent indicators point to some improvement, European Central Bank policymaker Jozef Makuch said on Tuesday.
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The Federal Reserve may need "several meetings" to get a good read on the U.S. economy, a top monetary policymaker said on Tuesday, a clear signal that the Fed's rate-hike holiday may last for a while.
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There was further pressure on the U.S. equity market after Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, a historically dovish policymaker, said the U.S. central bank faced increasing risks if it waited too much longer to raise interest rates.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Members of the European Parliament's industry committee have reached a compromise on reforming the bloc's carbon market, favoring a Commission proposal for the rate at which permits should be removed, an EU carbon policymaker said.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Big banks based in the European Union should be supervised jointly by local authorities and the European Central Bank even if they are not in the euro zone, ECB policymaker Vitas Vasiliauskas said on Tuesday.
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Some central bank watchers also took issue with last Wednesday's interest rate increase because it came after nearly two months of policymaker silence following an initial rate hike in July, which was well telegraphed to the market.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England cut its growth forecasts on Thursday and the only policymaker who had been pushing for a rate hike reversed his position, suggesting rates will stay on hold for the foreseeable future.
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As one of the country's highest-ranking non-royals, Naimi grew from a cautious public face into an outspoken policymaker, given full and sole responsibility for Saudi oil policy, leaving oil markets hanging on his every word.
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The Bank of France's Francois Villeroy de Galhau, a European Central Bank policymaker, said in a financial stability report that regulations were an asset that should be preserved as they had helped make the system more secure.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - One Federal Reserve policymaker who opposed the Fed's recent rate cut is considering whether to support such a move now given risks that a U.S.-China trade war and global slowdown could derail the economy.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Inflation in the euro zone is not at the level the European Central Bank wants it to be, ECB policymaker Klaas Knot said in an interview published by Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Sunday.
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There are excellent examples in every district, and every policymaker should take advantage of these opportunities to understand the impact having an affordable, stable place to call home can have on families and local and state economies.
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While the risk of a trade war is already weighing on sentiment, the actual impact on growth has so far been muted and ECB policymaker said they even expect the first half's growth slowdown to be temporary.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will probably decide this summer to slash its bond purchases if things develop as expected, policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Tuesday, warning that the ECB must not fall "behind the curve".
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"Every opportunity we get to expose those who are uninformed on African American history to the real-life experience of African Americans in the South, I think it makes for a better policymaker," Butterfield told The Hill.
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A member of the Fed's Board of Governors since 2012, Powell is broadly viewed as a policymaker who would carry on the cautious approach to influencing interest rates that's been the hallmark of current Chair Janet Yellen.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The euro zone needs to agree on the details of a backstop for its planned bank resolution fund by the end of the year, European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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Last month, local government officials representing eight Taiwanese cities and counties, mainly ruled by the opposition China-friendly Nationalists, visited China and met with its top Taiwan policymaker in a bid to continue economic and cultural exchanges.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Waiting too long to halt monetary policy stimulus could be disruptive, a European Central Bank policymaker said on Wednesday, adding that a more supportive euro zone economy justified a shift in the central bank's policies.
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TALLINN (Reuters) - The outlook for the euro zone economy has improved so the question now is how quickly central bank support can be reduced without jeopardizing growth, European Central Bank policymaker Ardo Hansson told an Estonian newspaper.
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Euro zone economic growth has already peaked, a Reuters poll found last month, but the ECB will probably decide this summer to slash its bond purchases if things develop as expected, policymaker Ewald Nowotny said last week.
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FUKOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Investors have understood the European Central Bank's latest policy message "very well", ECB policymaker Ignazio Visco said on Sunday when asked about a rise in the euro despite the possibility of new monetary easing.
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Despite his theoretical explorations of the possible advantages of negative interest rates, he said he had no intention as a policymaker of pursuing some of those ideas, like taxing cash holdings to get people to spend money.
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SOUTHAMPTON, England, June 10 (Reuters) - British economic data for April was weak but not unexpected after a first-quarter boost to the economy from stockbuilding ahead of Brexit, Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders said on Monday.
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While soaring US shale output brought on by the hydraulic fracturing revolution contributed to oversupply, many blame the 280% price collapse in the past 20 months primarily on Naimi, seen as the oil market's most influential policymaker.
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But with bets on U.S. interest rates swinging massively - market expectations are now for three rate cuts until end-2019, versus three hikes foreseen just six months ago - investors are growing cautious that policymaker rhetoric might underwhelm.
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WASHINGTON/INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The U.S. central bank is flagging a turning point in monetary policy, as a Federal Reserve policymaker on Friday backed interest rate hikes in the "near term" but nodded to increasingly less certainty ahead.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A lone Bank of Japan policymaker said additional easing was needed to accelerate inflation, but most members wanted to keep monetary policy unchanged, minutes from the central bank's policy meeting in April showed on Wednesday.
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As a policymaker, Mr. Stark was often ahead of his time: He was an early proponent of universal health care and a carbon tax, which would charge users of fossil fuels a fee based on carbon emissions.
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"The policy rate may need to depart from the natural rate if the policymaker is faced with a shock that creates a trade off – for example between bringing inflation to target and smoothing output volatility," Cunliffe said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could raise its deposit rate first before moving its main interest rate later, policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Tuesday, sending the euro higher and drawing an unusual rebuttal from the ECB.
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VILNIUS, March 27 (Reuters) - Lithuania's Vitas Vasiliauskas on Tuesday became the third European Central Bank policymaker in the matter of days to back market expectations for an interest rate increase in the first half of next year.
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The currency traded near three-week lows against the dollar which were hit on Friday, when a senior Bank of England policymaker said "prolonged high Brexit uncertainty" could warrant looser monetary policy if global growth remained disappointing.
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Investors were focused on the British pound which is down almost 2% this month versus the dollar as dismal economic numbers and policymaker comments have fanned expectations of an interest rate cut as soon as this month.
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LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A Bank of England policymaker charged with overseeing the banking sector said he was worried about the risk of British banks being hurt by trouble among their peers elsewhere in the European Union.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on Chinese goods in the escalating trade war between the two countries will boost U.S. inflation and could dampen economic growth, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Tuesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The European financial system remains fragile and fragmented due to the close relationship between sovereigns and banks, European Central Bank policymaker and Governor of the Bank of Spain Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Monday.
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PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should take climate change into account in the way it runs monetary policy, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday, backing a suggestion from its incoming chief.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is prepared to support the economy if needed in the face of the coronavirus outbreak, although more action is not yet needed, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday.
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Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, a Federal Reserve policymaker, on Tuesday expressed skepticism that a U.S. interest rate cut is the right move until there are more signs the economy is moving to a truly weaker path.
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A further complication for the Fed: The inflation outlook among U.S. consumers dipped sharply in April, countering Fed policymaker hopes that inflation dynamics will improve and the pace of price increases soon rise toward their target level.
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While soaring U.S. shale output brought on by the hydraulic fracturing revolution contributed to oversupply, many blame the 280-percent price collapse in the past 20 months primarily on Naimi, seen as the oil market's most influential policymaker.
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BUFFALO, NY (Reuters) - Current economic conditions are "as good as it gets" for the U.S. central bank, a key policymaker said on Thursday, with steady inflation and low unemployment allowing the Federal Reserve to continue gradually raising rates.
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PARIS (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday raised concerns about the implementation of the latest international 'Basel III' bank capital rules, saying they should be written into law everywhere, including the United States.
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"I don't yet see the signal that suggests it's time to get worried about a downturn," George, a policymaker with a vote on the Fed's policy-setting panel this year, told CNBC in an interview aired on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is strong despite global risks, and data showing tame inflation pressure are no sign that policymakers are falling short of their goals, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale said he saw the economic outlook differently after much weaker-than-expected British purchasing managers' data, a week after saying he needed firmer evidence before backing an interest rate cut.
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SEOUL, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Annual sales at South Korea's top department and discount stores in January were seen rebounding from the previous month, finance ministry estimates showed on Friday, backing recent policymaker comments that consumption is steadily recovering.
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The greenback was flat against a basket of other major currencies, pressured on Tuesday by Fed policymaker Lael Brainard saying inflation was "well short" of target and that the Fed should be cautious about raising U.S. interest rates.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Governments should not expect the European Central Bank to let fiscal issues take precedence when it sets its monetary policy even if financial stability is at stake, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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BERLIN, June 28 (Reuters) - The inflation rate in the euro zone remains too low, and that justifies maintaining an active monetary policy, European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau told a business conference in Germany on Friday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's new offer to lenders to effectively pay them for taking its money should be limited to a certain period and not become a permanent instrument, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Friday.
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The new data privacy requirements are deliberately international in their reach and the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has been a leading policymaker in translating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR){here} into practical guidance for firms.
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Many of Mr Franken's colleagues had stood by him, as more women came forward with stories of gropes and unwanted touches, because they liked the affable former comedian and believed in his talent as policymaker and fund-raiser.
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PARIS, May 14 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could give fresh guidance on the timing it its first rate hike as the end of its exceptional bond purchases approaches, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday.
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Asmussen has more than 20 years of experience in the public sector as an economist and policymaker and most recently served as state secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs from 2014 to 2015.
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The past four days were the pound's worst since the aftermath of the vote to leave the European Union in June, and Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders warned a "bumpy" Brexit could sharply reduce British economic growth.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The creation of pan-European banks, rather than national champions, could help lenders fight off rising competition from shadow banking, Bank of Spain Governor and European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Tuesday.
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PARIS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Europe's implementation of a bank regulation reform under negotiation by the Basel Committee of supervisors will hinge on the Trump administration abiding by the deal, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Solid growth provides room for the European Central Bank to transition away from bond purchases but normalization should be gradual and policy moves should be well telegraphed, Lithuanian policymaker Vitas Vasiliauskas said in a magazine article.
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Sterling fell as much as half a percent as economics professor John Haskel, whose views are relatively unknown and who replaces a policymaker who has called for higher interest rates, spoke to the British parliament's Treasury Select Committee.
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The U.S. economy is at increasing risk of becoming trapped in a prolonged phase of slow growth that points to the need for lower interest rates than previously expected, Federal Reserve policymaker Jerome Powell was quoted as saying.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Contagion on European bond markets from Italy's budget plans has been very limited, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Tuesday as the Austrian central bank he heads issued its half-yearly Financial Stability Report.
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British unemployment is likely to fall further than the Bank of England and most other economists expect this year, pushing pay growth to near its fastest rate since the financial crisis, BoE policymaker Michael Saunders said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymaker Charles Evans said he will go with an open mind into next month's policy meeting, at which the U.S. central bank is expected to raise interest rates for a third time this year.
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Comments on Tuesday by ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny, who said the central bank will probably decide this summer to cull its bond purchases and warned that the ECB must not fall "behind the curve", helped underpin the euro.
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She said there had been no obvious impact of comments by Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe, one of the strongest advocates of stimulus for the economy after June's Brexit vote, that supported keeping interest rates on hold.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Creditor countries must do more to support global demand as interest rates rise, making it more expensive for debtors to pay their dues, European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Thursday.
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A summary of opinions from the Bank of Japan's March 15-16 policy meeting released earlier this week suggested that at least one policymaker was concerned about potential pitfalls of the central bank's current "yield curve control" policy.
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An obsession with making the federal government run more like a tech company and training citizens to work in new industries is a good sign that a policymaker will end up siding with Silicon Valley on most issues.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Irish central bank chief Philip Lane is the sole candidate to replace Peter Praet as the European Central Bank's chief economist in May, virtually ensuring that a key ECB post will remain with a dovish policymaker.
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Still, Evans' view that both rate hikes or rate cuts are in the realm of possibility echoed that of fellow policymaker Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, who on Friday said both possibilities are on the table for him.
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LISBON, March 23 (Reuters) - Euro zone governments should ponder the issuance of common "coronabonds" specifically in response to the coronavirus pandemic to prevent a potential new sovereign debt crisis, European Central Bank policymaker Carlos Costa said on Monday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Robert Holzmann said he would not support an interest rate cut to insulate the euro zone from the effects of the coronavirus epidemic but he could consider giving firms ultra cheap loans.
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The Federal Reserve will stick to its plan for "steady, gradual" interest-rate increases, a Fed policymaker said Wednesday despite market gyrations and strong data on U.S. wage growth that has bond traders pricing in faster rising inflation.
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The move toward tourism was devised by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's 22018-year-old chief policymaker, whose Vision 2030 program seeks to diversify the economy, draw in more outside investment and expand the private sector.
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HELSINKI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - It is better to be safe than sorry before shifting the policy gear back to normalisation, Finnish policymaker Olli Rehn said on Thursday, in defence of the European Central Bank's decision to raise stimulus.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A sharp rise in underlying inflation last month was not enough to convince at least one Federal Reserve policymaker that further interest rate hikes will soon be needed to keep a lid on rising prices.
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK, June 3 (Reuters) - A Federal Reserve policymaker on Monday said that a rate cut may be needed "soon," the strongest signal yet that the central bank may change course as trade tensions threaten the U.S. economy.
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To this end, Price is preparing to emphasize his readiness to shift from a policymaker to a Cabinet official overseeing and implementing policy, and plans to discuss his qualifications that are separate from his work on Obamacare replacement legislation.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The difficulty some U.S. firms face in filling high-skilled jobs may be limiting business investment, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Friday, adding that unequal opportunities in the labor market tends to sap economic vitality.
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VIENNA/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny challenged a choir of cautious comments from his colleagues on Friday, saying the ECB had achieved its inflation goal and should hike its key interest rate as soon as possible.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank can supply cash to banks if Sunday's presidential vote in France roils markets but suppressing a rise in governments' borrowing costs would go beyond its remit, ECB policymaker Ignazio Visco said on Saturday.
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BERLIN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Jens Weidmann has said state involvement in the rescue of Italian banks can't be ruled out, piling further pressure on the Rome government to bail out Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
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The Federal Reserve aims to raise U.S. interest rates in the months ahead if the economy continues to grow a bit above its trend and if, as expected, fiscal policies provide stimulus, an influential Fed policymaker said on Wednesday.
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The comments by Eric Rosengren, president of the Boston Fed, echoed remarks made earlier in the day by another Fed policymaker who cited the U.S. economy's falling a bit short on the central bank's inflation target as a problem.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The recent suspension of a high-profile British equity fund could become a "very big problem" if it caused investors to doubt the integrity of the financial system, Bank of England policymaker Anil Kashyap said on Tuesday.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Kristin Forbes said inflation in Britain could "sharply" overshoot the BoE's 2 percent target, partly due to measures announced by the central bank in August to offset the impact of the Brexit vote.
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The New York Fed president is the second most important economic policymaker in the country — a person whose views have vast influence over the unemployment rate and the wages and bargaining power of tens of millions of employed Americans.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece still faces "a long road to recovery" after leaving its bailout programme last week and needs to continue balancing its books and cleaning up its banking sector, European Central Bank policymaker Jens Weidmann said on Thursday.
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LONDON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's shock win in the U.S. election has not roiled markets as expected and a subsequent rise in inflation expectations is welcomed by its central bank, Federal Reserve policymaker James Bullard said on Wednesday.
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"If public deficits and debt were the key to growth, then our two countries (France and Italy) would be the growth champions of Europe; unfortunately that is not the case," Villeroy, a European Central Bank policymaker, said in Rome.
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FUKOKA, Japan, June 9 (Reuters) - Investors have understood the European Central Bank's latest policy message "very well", ECB policymaker Ignazio Visco said on Sunday when asked about a rise in the euro despite the possibility of new monetary easing.
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MARKET NEWS * A gauge of global stocks advanced on Thursday, erasing declines on a late rally after comments from a U.S. Federal Reserve policymaker heightened expectations for a rate cut, while oil prices dropped on forecasts of rising output.
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LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Central Bank needs to keep its policy options open in the face of growing economic risks, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday, warning against storing its crisis-fighting tools away too quickly.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy's fundamentals are solid and growth this year should pick up to around 2.5 percent, but the Federal Reserve's current 'wait and see' approach to monetary policy is appropriate, a Fed policymaker said on Monday.
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The nervy tone was set earlier in the day when Asian markets extended losses after North Korea conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear test, while investors are keenly awaiting a speech on Monday by U.S. policymaker Lael Brainard.
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Many of the Fed's contacts across the economy said they were worried that a recent increase in tariffs levied by the United States and its trading partners was weighing on investment, according to the minutes' summary of policymaker discussions.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rising student loan debt in the United States could ultimately hurt overall home ownership and consumer spending and erode colleges' and universities' ability to elevate lower-income students, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Monday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation may need more time to rise than anticipated as spare capacity is taking longer to exhaust but the European Central Bank should not accept price growth below its target, Belgian policymaker Jan Smets said.
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Sterling and government bond yields fell as investors took the comments from Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden and policymaker Silvana Tenreyro as a sign that even if the BoE raises rates in November, further increases are unlikely to happen quickly.
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The policymaker was Jerome Powell, now the Federal Reserve chairman and a Fed governor in October 2013 when a political debate over federal spending brought the country to the verge of reneging on trillions of dollars of financial obligations.
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"This would be fairly unprecedented for a modern policymaker but at the same time the implementation and the reasons for quantitative easing (QE) in the euro zone are also unprecedented for modern monetary policy," Rabobank strategist Matt Cairns said.
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U.S. and European bond yields both reached milestones as investors prepare for central banks to tighten monetary policy, and after a European Central Bank policymaker said the ECB should spell out it would end its bond purchases this year.
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U.S. and European bond yields reached milestones as investors prepare for central banks to tighten monetary policy, with a European Central Bank policymaker having said the ECB should spell out that it would end its bond purchases this year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should embrace inflation above its target half the time and consider cutting rates if prices do not rise as fast as expected, a top policymaker at the central bank said on Monday.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Growth uncertainty in the euro zone has increased, particularly with poor data coming from Germany but the economy is going through a slowdown and not facing a recession, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The now "large" U.S. deficits may complicate the government's ability to curb future recessions with tax and spending policies, so the Federal Reserve must depend less on fiscal policy, a top Fed policymaker said on Friday.
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However, a separate article published by NIESR on Wednesday, by former BoE policymaker David Blanchflower and fellow academic David Bell, said wage growth "is not going to take off any time soon", due to high levels of under-employment.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - As "nine-to-five" jobs diminish in the United States, the Federal Reserve will be on alert as to whether the shift is making American workers less secure, an influential Federal Reserve policymaker said on Thursday.
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The ECB will discuss policy next Thursday and ECB policymaker Olli Rehn said at the end of May that the bank was ready to reintroduce monetary support measures if required, amid market concern over the euro zone's economic slowdown.
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Comments on Tuesday by ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny, who said the central bank will probably decide this summer to cull its bond purchases and warned that the ECB must not fall "behind the curve", had helped underpin the euro.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks around the world need to watch for the risk that financial firms are caught out by higher interest rates and the scaling back of bond-buying programs, a Bank of England policymaker said on Tuesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Upside risks to British wage growth and inflation have grown more distant, Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty said in an interview published on Monday, after dropping his lone call to hike interest rates earlier this month.
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The greenback, however, was on the front foot against the pound, which hovered near a 1-month low struck overnight, after a Bank of England policymaker suggested more monetary easing was needed although the BoE cut rates last week.
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Addressing a closed-to-the-press conference hosted by the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance alongside Chicago Fed President Charles Evans, Rosengren, who is considered a relatively dovish policymaker, said there are risks to low rates for extended periods.
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Euro zone bond yields initially inched higher on Monday, but a cautious note struck by the region's top policymaker, Mario Draghi, dragged them back in the afternoon and 10-year German government bond yields hit a one-month low.
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Yang Guang, who is a spokesman rather than a policymaker, told reporters that the government in Beijing "condemned the protests and the actions of radical activists" and said their concerns had stemmed from a "misunderstanding" of China's legal system.
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - The European Central Bank (ECB) will decide its next policy moves based on incoming economic data and not financial market swings, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said in an interview released on Monday.
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While Mr. Liu is considered an able policymaker, his main mission will be to carry out Mr. Xi's vision of an economy that serves the interest of the party and the Chinese state, and not the other way around.
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LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Anil Kashyap said on Tuesday he was worried that since the Brexit referendum Britain has become more reliant on foreign funding that could be withdrawn at short notice by international investors.
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Economists will find it hard to identify the relationship between inflation and the amount of slack in the economy when central banks are pursuing optimal monetary policy, Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro said on Tuesday.
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The pound hit its highest level against the U.S. dollar since the Brexit vote on Friday after another policymaker, Gertjan Vlieghe, who was considered the BoE's strongest opponent to a rate hike, also said borrowing costs might rise soon.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - There are some early sign that underlying inflation in the euro zone is finally moving up but it is too early to become optimistic about this trend, European Central Bank policymaker Klaas Knot said on Friday.
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Powell, however, struck an overall positive tone about the U.S. economy in an appearance at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, becoming the latest Fed policymaker in recent days to say it may be time to notch rates higher.
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LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro said she will be inclined to vote for a cut in interest rates, if the economy does not pick up this year as the central bank forecast in November.
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MADRID (Reuters) - It is urgent to find a solution to the World Trade Organisation's current paralysis, as the organization has been a key multilateral institution in the arbitration of commercial disputes, ECB policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos said Tuesday.
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Silvana Tenreyro, who is also a policymaker at the central bank, on Friday joined the talk and said she would be inclined to back an interest rate cut in the coming months if growth remained sluggish in the economy.
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A hard Brexit at the end of 2020 remains a possibility and could cut deep into foreign trade, much as if Britain were to leave the EU without a deal, European Central Bank policymaker Klaas Knot said on Wednesday.
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Trump recounted the recent call with Powell at one of several private policy meetings over the past week where the policymaker was a target of the president's criticism, the newspaper reported, citing an unnamed person who heard the comments.
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HONG KONG, April 5 (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve policymaker on Tuesday repeated his call for just two U.S. interest-rate hikes this year, saying that the risks to his forecast for economic growth are weighted to the downside.
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LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The Bank of England should cut interest rates now, rather than risk the British economy slowing to a point where the central bank can do little to help it, policymaker Jonathan Haskel said on Friday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is confident inflation is on the right track although the specter of protectionism and other risks including Brexit are adding to broader economic uncertainty, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday.
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Benoit Coeure defended on Sunday the nomination of outgoing International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde to lead the ECB, calling her "uniquely qualified" after critics said she lacked relevant experience.
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It could further relax a requirement to buy bonds in proportion to each country's ECB shareholding, or include new asset classes such as stocks, as raised in July by one policymaker but not given consideration, or non-performing bank loans.
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But in this case, since O'Rielly is a presidential appointee and policymaker confirmed by the Senate, it falls solely on President Trump—the person the commissioner urged the crowd to vote for—to decide what, if any, penalties are appropriate.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is on track to gradually raise interest rates given the recent inflation weakness is fading and the U.S. economy's fundamentals are sound, an influential Fed policymaker said on Monday, reinforcing the central bank's confident tone.
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The euro briefly hit a five-week high and the bloc's bond yields and banking stocks climbed on Friday as comments from an ECB policymaker prompted investors to price in a high chance of a rate hike by year end.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said Britain's divorce with the European Union was putting strain on its friendship with the bloc, and that deregulation would put global financial systems on course towards another crisis.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is at increasing risk of becoming trapped in a prolonged phase of slow growth that points to the need for lower interest rates than previously expected, Federal Reserve policymaker Jerome Powell was quoted as saying.
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LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders said on Friday raising interest rates too late had similar costs to moving too early, distancing himself from colleagues who have previously stressed greater risks from a premature rate hike.
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German data has disappointed of late, pointing to a slowdown in economic growth which ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Saturday could be a lasting phenomenon caused by structural problems, particularly in its car industry, rather than a one-off.
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SOUTHAMPTON, England (Reuters) - The Bank of England will probably need to raise interest rates sooner than financial markets expect, policymaker Michael Saunders said on Monday, adding his voice to an unexpectedly hawkish message from the central bank's chief economist on Saturday.
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Torturously slow recoveries from recessions and low inflation are here to stay unless policymakers can get a better grip on how to stabilize the global economy in an era of lower interest rates, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Tuesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone governments will have to decide whether they cover the small hole left in the European Central Bank's finances if, as expected, the Bank of England returns its stake after Brexit, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Tuesday.
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Dealers cited an interview with Federal Reserve policymaker Jerome Powell in the Financial Times, conducted before Friday's data, as quelling any speculation the Fed could raise rates as soon as September, seen in any case as only a 15 percent chance. .
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should have signaled a clear intent to end asset buys when it extended purchases until September but left the door open to another extension, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said in remarks broadcast on Friday.
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LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - The recent suspension of a high-profile British equity fund could become a "very big problem" if it caused investors to doubt the integrity of the financial system, Bank of England policymaker Anil Kashyap said on Tuesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should look at how to offset the risks from negative interest rates if they have to be used longer than expected, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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With little in the policymaker toolkit to prevent a slide into recession, markets have reacted negatively to corporate sectors most at risk such as banks, which could face lower loan growth, weaker returns from lending and losses from any souring loans.
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But where a leader consists of words on a page (or a screen), a VR experience can take you inside the argument, in this case examining the issues from the perspective of a diner, a fish, a fisherman and a policymaker.
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FRANKFURT, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The euro zone economy started the year on a solid footing and the European Central Bank should start plotting an exit from stimulus if the recent inflation rise proves lasting, ECB policymaker Jens Weidmann said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen denied on Wednesday accusations by a Republican lawmaker that she let politics influence interest rate policy, saying she was unaware of any contact between a top Fed policymaker and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Axel Weber, UBS chairman and a former policymaker at the European Central Bank, told CNBC that he was bullish on the outlook for the U.S. but there would be little chance of a "full rollback" in banking and financial regulation.
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"Another poor decision... keeping interest rates at 0.5 pct despite nine years of economic recovery, a buoyant global economy, above target inflation and the lowest unemployment rate for 43 years," said Andrew Sentance, a former Bank of England policymaker, on Twitter.
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Prices fell on Monday after weekend comments by the Fed's No. 2 policymaker, Stanley Fischer, saying that the U.S. central bank is close to hitting targets for full employment and 0.833 percent inflation, raising the prospect of a U.S. rate increase.
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While the doubts over the Bank of Japan may undermine that, Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale - last week an opponent of cutting interest rates - said his view had changed on the back of a poor batch of purchasing managers surveys.
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ECB policymaker Olli Rehn, who heads Finland's central bank and, like Villeroy, has been tipped as a potential successor to ECB chief Mario Draghi, said last month unconventional tools should be reviewed in light of recent experience and economic literature.
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BoE chief economist Andy Haldane said he wanted to use "a sledgehammer to crack a nut", but another policymaker, Kristin Forbes, said the central bank should stay calm and not rush into a decision until more hard data was available.
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The British pound fell for the fifth day in a row on Tuesday and was the largest major currency mover after a Bank of England policymaker said that more quantitative easing was probably necessary if the U.K.'s economic decline worsens.
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Fed policymaker Jerome Powell was quoted as saying on Monday that the U.S. economy is at increasing risk of becoming trapped in a prolonged phase of slow growth that points to a need for lower interest rates than previously expected.
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LONDON, April 1.23783 (Reuters) - The euro jumped on Tuesday, bond yields edged higher and European stocks gave up some gains after a top European Central Bank policymaker said the bank could raise its sub-zero desposit rate before normalising monetary policy.
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HELSINKI, April 26 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Olli Rehn on Friday poured cold water on the prospect of a tiered rate on deposits, which would exempt euro zone banks from paying the ECB a charge on their idle cash.
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BoE policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe told the Treasury Committee of parliament on Tuesday that policy rates are set to rise 25 to 50 basis points every year over three years, a comment initially interpreted by markets as supportive for the pound.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Should political deadlock in Washington again bring the world's biggest economy to the brink of a debt default, the U.S. central bank has a playbook that includes options one policymaker once labeled "loathsome," but, perhaps, necessary.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - The European Central Bank needs to keep its monetary policy easy while tightening slowly as underlying inflation in the euro zone remains weak and global risks such as protectionism loom, ECB policymaker Olli Rehn said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gauge of global stocks advanced on Thursday, erasing declines on a late rally after comments from a U.S. Federal Reserve policymaker heightened expectations for a rate cut, while oil prices dropped on forecasts of rising output.
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WARSAW, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Polish central bank policymaker Jerzy Zyzynski said on Friday he would back cutting interest rates from their current all-time low to support investment as uncertainty related to Britain's decision to exit the European Union has subsided.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Thursday he is not advocating for interest rate hikes at this point and instead wants to "show more patience" waiting for the U.S. economy to show clearer signs of improvement.
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"If economic conditions evolve as anticipated, I believe further removal of accommodation via increases in the fed funds rate will be needed," said Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, a hawkish policymaker who regains a vote on interest rates next year.
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Traders tend to scoff when a policymaker plays investor, often referencing when then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made a very early "irrational exuberance" call in December 1996, more than three years before the top of the dot-com bull market.
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A majority of market players expect the Bank of Korea to lower rates next month from the current 1.50 percent level as the ongoing recovery has been sluggish, although some recent policymaker comments and data have been watering down such views.
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Speaking on Tuesday, Governor Jerome Powell, the first Federal Reserve policymaker to comment since the vote, said Brexit had shifted global risks "to the downside," reinforcing expectations the Fed will not hike U.S. rates this year and could even cut.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should continue to raise interest rates to prevent an overheating in an economy buoyed by strong financial conditions, global growth and the Trump administration's tax cuts, a top policymaker said Friday.
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The rising cost of prolonged easing was the focus of debate at the BOJ's rate review in September, with one policymaker warning that there was a limit to how long the stimulus could be sustained, minutes released on Monday showed.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said on Monday that a further rise in British interest rates was likely to be appropriate if a strong global economy and a labor market pick-up continued to offset Brexit headwinds.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England policymaker who has led the charge for higher interest rates said on Friday the long-term effect of a fall in sterling in boosting British inflation was commonly underestimated in the BoE's main economic models.
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Such a move could prove significant because it would appear to reduce the prospect of Weidmann, the ECB's most hawkish policymaker, taking over leadership of the ECB just as it is likely to start exiting its ultra accommodative policy stance.
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Bank of England policymaker Kristin Forbes said on Thursday she feared the pound's weakness would have a lasting upward effect on inflation, and that she was concerned central banks were becoming more reluctant to raise rates than in the past.
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A senior Federal Reserve policymaker has batted aside investor concerns that US officials made an error in lifting interest rates against a backdrop of weak inflation, arguing the central bank should forge ahead with plans to reduce its balance sheet.
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The pound jumped on Wednesday after a Bank of England policymaker said he expected to back an interest rate hike this year while commodity-linked currencies such as the Canadian dollar and Norwegian crown took a hit on declining oil prices.
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ROME, May 2 (Reuters) - Restricting banks' holdings of home-country government bonds or making them set aside capital to cover the risk from excessive holdings could do more harm than good, European Central Bank policymaker Ignazio Visco said on Monday.
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AUSTIN (Reuters) - Businesses, governments and other organizations should stop looking at job skills training as social welfare and see it instead as a path to better jobs, higher paying wages, and faster growth, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Thursday.
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"We are clearly in a different economic period of history, economic environment ... This yearning that you so often hear about and read about for a return to normal is probably a really false objective," the 69-year-old policymaker said.
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"It looks like in Donald Trump's mind (Taiwan) is a useful tool to pick the most sensitive nerve of China," said Alexander Huang, chairman of the Council on Strategic and Wargaming Studies in Taiwan and a former Taiwanese government policymaker.
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LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - Financial markets are warning of weakness in the U.S. economy, so the Federal Reserve should be "very patient and judicious" as it considers whether to raise interest rates, a policymaker in the Fed's cautious camp said on Thursday.
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On Friday, sterling rose past the $1.36 level for the first time since the Brexit vote, after comments from BoE policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe echoed the central bank's signal that the first rate increase in a decade could happen in "coming months".
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Waterville, ME (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should be "unhurried" as it considers when to again raise interest rates given problems overseas and financial market volatility that will likely dampen already low U.S. inflation, a top Fed policymaker said on Tuesday.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Euro zone activity is weaker than previously thought but the growth scenario outlined by the European Central Bank in December remains valid and a rate hike this year is still possible, Austrian policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigrants will likely weaken overall U.S. consumer spending and economic growth as those targeted for arrest increasingly choose to stay home and save more, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will be patient as it decides how trouble overseas could hit the U.S. economy, a Fed policymaker said in an interview, suggesting the central bank will be slower to raise interest rates this year.
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FRANKFURT, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Banking profitability in the euro zone is so weak that lenders' resilience to a downturn may be limited, even if they have spent years building up capital buffers, European Central Bank policymaker Madis Müller told Eurofi Magazine.
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Part of the answer, surely, is that escalation, if done quietly, gradually and without putting the nation on full war footing, offered Johnson the path of least immediate resistance (always a tempting option for a policymaker), especially in domestic political terms.
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The White House has sent General McMaster and the N.S.C.'s top Asia policymaker, Matthew Pottinger, to San Francisco, where they will meet with their counterparts from South Korea and Japan to discuss the implications of the North-South dialogue.
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If confirmed, Ms. Nauert may serve more as a public face for the administration than as a policymaker, leaving Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and John R. Bolton, the president's national security adviser, to dominate decision-making back in Washington.
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CARDIFF (Reuters) - The Bank of England should not keep interest rates at their record low as an insurance policy against the risk of a "bumpy Brexit" and it needs to start raising borrowing costs now, BoE policymaker Michael Saunders said.
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The policymaker expects the economy to grow by about 2% this year and projects that inflation is on track to hit the central bank's 2% target, he said in remarks prepared for delivery at a banking forum in Somerset, New Jersey.
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The euro had strengthened earlier on Monday after European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that the ECB could give fresh guidance on the timing of its first rate hike as the end of its exceptional bond purchases approaches.
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"It has been a hard thing for Pete and for his administration to not be a top-down policymaker, but to find ways of gaining authentic input from large varieties of people," said Ms. Schuth, director of Near Northwest Neighborhood Inc.
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An index of bank stocks gave up 1%, led by a 1003% drop in Lloyds, after Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro joined the central bank's head Mark Carney in leaning towards lowering interest rates if growth does not improve.
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HELSINKI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank must react strongly when inflation expectations are too low to stop them from getting stuck at unacceptable levels, Finnish policymaker Olli Rehn said on Thursday, defending the bank's decision to raise stimulus.
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ECB policymaker and Spanish central bank governor Pablo de Cos had also said on Tuesday the central bank hadn't hit a floor with its deposit rate yet but risked hampering bank lending if it kept it below zero for long.
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The euro had briefly strengthened on Monday after European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that the ECB could give fresh guidance on the timing of its first rate hike as the end of its exceptional bond purchases approaches.
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In a statement, Wells Fargo said it "understands and is committed to addressing policymaker concerns on issues with our Collateral Protection Insurance product," and has taken steps to refund customers, end the practice and hold those responsible for it accountable.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan must lay the grounds for exiting its massive stimulus program by slowing asset purchases and raising its long-term interest rate target to 1103 percent this year, a former central bank policymaker said on Wednesday.
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MADRID, Sept 18 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez De Cos on Wednesday called for structural reforms and fiscal action by European countries in conjunction with ECB's measures in order to revive the sluggish economy in the euro zone.
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Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch have dubbed QE "Quantitative Failure", and Andrew Sentence, Senior Economic Adviser at PwC and ex-BoE policymaker, reckons the Bank should wait until incoming data gives a clearer picture of the Brexit impact.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The euro zone needs to complete its stalled banking union but only if risks are reduced before they are shared more widely among member states, European Central Bank policymaker Klaas Knot said in a magazine article on Tuesday.
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BARNSLEY, England (Reuters) - The Bank of England would be justified in cutting interest rates if the underlying rate of economic growth remains at its current weak level, even if it does not slow further, BoE policymaker Michael Saunders said on Friday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - It is unclear if Germany's recent economic setbacks are a one-off or a more lasting phenomenon caused by structural problems, particularly in its car industry, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said in remarks published on Saturday.
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VIENNA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Fiscal policy measures to stimulate growth need to complement ultra-loose monetary policy, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Friday, adding monetary policy has had as big an effect as it could have had.
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BOSTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is strong enough to withstand the ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute but high tariffs for a long period of time could weigh on economic growth, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Monday.
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LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The Bank of England's next policy move is still likely to be up, but this could become more finely balanced if there are further disappointments on the economy, Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said on Monday.
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The Federal Reserve should continue gradually raising U.S. interest rates given low inflation should rebound, an influential Fed policymaker said in a Thursday speech that sounded slightly less confident than his previous hawkish comments in the face of weak price readings.
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