Saturday, May 14, 2016

The most significant risks to the MPC’s forecast concern the referendum. A vote to leave the EU could materially alter the outlook for output and inflation, and therefore the appropriate setting of monetary policy. Households could defer consumption and firms delay investment, lowering labour demand and causing unemployment to rise...Bank of England

12 May 2016

Bank of England maintains Bank Rate at 0.5% and the size of the Asset Purchase Programme at £375 billion
                              
​Monetary policy summary

Οι πολιτικές εξελίξεις δίνουν την κατεύθυνση στις ομολογιακές αγορές. Η απόφαση του Eurogroup της 9ης Μαΐου για σταδιακή ελάφρυνση του ελληνικού χρέους αναμένεται να έχει θετική επίδραση.... ALPHA BANK

Απόσπασμα από το Εβδομαδιαίο Δελτίο Οικονομικών Εξελίξεων - Διεύθυνση Οικονομικών Μελετών ..ALPHA BANK

Αγορές ομολόγων – Η πορεία του προγράμματος QE της ΕΚΤ

In 2015, warm winter temperatures reduced the demand for electricity, lessened the need to bring marginal generators online, and lowered natural gas prices. During seven months of 2015, electricity generated from natural gas exceeded coal generation....USA - EIA

13/05/2016                                         Research

Carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation in 2015 were lowest since 1993


Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electricity generation totaled 1,925 million metric tons in 2015, the lowest since 1993 and 21% below their 2005 level. 

A Civil Liberties Committee delegation will travel to Greece from 18 to 20 May to check the situation of refugees at the external borders of the EU ....

Press release - Immigration / Justice and home affairs − 13-05-2016 - 14:43

MEPs to go to Greece to check on refugees and implementation of EU-Turkey deal



A Civil Liberties Committee delegation will travel to Greece from 18 to 20 May to check the situation of refugees at the external borders of the EU and assess how the EU-Turkey deal to manage migrant and asylum-seekers flows into the EU is being implemented. MEPs will visit the Greece/FYROM border, the island of Lesvos and Athens. They will also meet representatives of the Greek Government, and EU and international bodies, as well as NGOs.

Total FY 2016 net income, including income from surcharges applied to higher-access borrowing from the IMF, is estimated at SDR 1 billion (US$1.4 billion). - Net income for FY 2016 was higher than estimated at the start of the year...IMF

May 13, 2016                        Press Release No. 16/219

IMF Executive Board Reviews the Fund's Income Position for Financial Years 2016 and 2017-2018


The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its annual review of the Fund’s income position for the financial year ending April 30, 2016 (FY 2016) and set the margin for the lending rate for IMF credit for FY 2017 and FY 2018, on April 22, 2016.