Major financial institutions were debt - laden in 2007, and
the biggest central banks of the world are now in the same situation.
Not exact matches
It will be easier to convince the public
of the
central bank's efforts to re inflate the
world's third -
biggest economy if they can easily measure jumps in the size
of the BOJ's balance sheet, supporters
of the idea say.
Abe has demanded more aggressive action from the
central bank to end years
of deflation and lift the
world's third -
biggest economy out
of recession.
She's a
big shot — the number two at the
world's most powerful
central bank, a former professor
of economics at Berkeley, and a former top White House economic advisor — but she still does her homework.
This incident, now one
of the
biggest cybercrimes the
world has seen, highlighted vulnerabilities in the payment network within the global financial system, and led to more rigorous security measures and guidelines from
central banks worldwide.
Indeed,
world currency markets have roared back to life lately after years
of hibernation, with a handful
of monetary policy surprises — including the European
Central Bank (ECB)'s
bigger - than - expected bond buying program and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s delay in raising rates — leading to rising volatility, as the chart below shows.
«Here at the G20, finance leaders and
central bank governors
of the
world's
biggest economies have raised serious concerns about the risks posed by a UK exit from the EU,» Osborne said in a statement from Shanghai.
But because worries about global economic growth, inflation and the threat
of central bank rate hikes are one catalyst for the climb
of bond yields, some analysts worry that the move higher may prove sustained and inflict damage to the
world's
biggest economy.
But at the other end
of the spectrum, in the floating
world, investors are increasingly risk - agnostic about buying the
biggest & best blue - chips — which are the primary beneficiaries
of a
world awash in a
central bank tsunami
of liquidity & quantitative easing.
All
of that contributed to a stand - off in interbank lending markets, with rates surging higher as
banks sought to hoard cash, leading to a coordinated effort by the
world's
biggest central banks in December to ensure liquidity was available.