Translation of "Geldpolitik lockern" in English

In this case the central bank will ease monetary policy.

Will it tighten or loosen policy?

It undermined the Bank's efforts to ease monetary policy and created the risk of a deflationary trend.

The European Central Bank and other central banks throughout the world are under a great deal of pressure to relax their monetary policy.

The Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Swiss National Bank are already easing policy as their economies’ growth lags that of the US.

If, however, the shock is permanent, central banks should ease monetary conditions; otherwise, they will never be able to reach their inflation target.

In the absence of the high degree of mobility seen in the US, however, overall unemployment can be lowered only if high-unemployment countries can ease monetary policy, an option precluded by the single currency.

Against this background, the ECB has yielded to immense political pressure, particularly from France and Italy, to loosen monetary policy further and weaken the exchange rate.

This intervention upset the EU, as it has put upward pressure on the euro at a time when the European Central Bank has placed interest rates on hold while the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and the US Federal Reserve are easing monetary policy further.

Under this scenario, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) would favor an increase in interest rates, while the FPC would want to loosen monetary conditions.

Or a weaker euro could be had if the ECB were willing – quite unlikely – to ease monetary policy further to allow real depreciation.

The Federal Reserve will thus be able to ease monetary policy then to offset the fiscal drag.

Investors’ fears were not borne out, and central banks began to ease their monetary policies; or, in the case of the Fed, put rate hikes on hold.

Two dismal months for financial markets may give way in March to a relief rally for assets such as global equities, as some key central banks (the People’s Bank of China, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan) ease more, while others (the Fed and the Bank of England) will remain on hold for longer.

The European Central Bank should ease monetary policy in order to weaken the value of the euro and bootstrap the periphery’s growth.

It has taken a number of important measures to ease the monetary policy stance and enhance its transmission to broader financial conditions, notably through its Asset Backed Securities (ABS) purchase programme which started last October.

With such policies in place, the comfort zone for central banks is enlarged sufficiently to loosen monetary policy.

Mar 04, 2014 After more than five years of major monetary accommodation, the European Central Bank (ECB) is still under pressure to loosen even further.

How would a president know when to “devalue” the people’s money, or when to loosen monetary policy?

Looking forward, the new government is likely to implement fiscal stimulus, the BoE may ease monetary policy through a combination of lower interest rates and unconventional methods, and the fall in sterling will provide an economic tailwind.

One of the cleanest fundamental set-ups is when you have one central bank that is looking to tighten money supply due to an overheating economy which shows underlying strength and another economy’s central bank that is looking to loosen monetary policy which weakens the currency in order to jump start the economy.

Were this to be insufficient, CEE countries could weaken their currencies with flexible exchange rates to the euro in order to loosen monetary policy", says UniCredit economist Dan Bucsa.

This is why these countries won't allow the ECB to 'ease' its monetary policy, which would help Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and in the end also Croatia.

The ECB had no other choice than to further ease its monetary policy stance given the continued risk of deflation and the weaker outlook for the European economy.... [continue reading]

Robertson believes in the event no deal is reached, the Bank of England would be prepared to overlook rising inflation and ease monetary policy – despite the fact that on November 2 it raised interest rates for the first time in over a decade, from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent.

For example, if productivity rises and inflation falls, an inflation-targeting central bank would likely ease policy, potentially generating asset bubbles.