We had eight years of very bad economic performance with two recessions during a short period of time. The first phase of our monetary policy action was basically the period between 2008 and 2009, when the ECB provided liquidity to the banks. Then we had this big fragmentation problem brought about by a very severe debt crisis. ..Peter Praet - ECB

Interview with Público - Interview with Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Sérgio Anibal, published on 23 May 2016.

In the United States, private consumption has been the main engine of growth and continued to expand solidly. Despite a sharp slowdown in the fourth quarter, the U.S. economy grew at a respectable 2.4 percent pace in 2015, driven by steady household spending... IMF

Regional Economic Outlook - Western Hemisphere Managing Transitions and Risks

                             
Executive Summary

Σταθεροποιητικό άνοιγμα αναμένεται στις Ευρωπαϊκές αγορές... DAX

Σχόλιο Αγοράς..

Reuters

Οι Οικονομικοί spreadbetter  αναμένουν ότι ο FTSE 100 της Βρετανίας θα ανοίξει περίπου 7 μονάδες υψηλότερα, ή 0,10% ο DAX της Γερμανίας θα ανοίξει 22 μονάδες υψηλότερα, ή 0,20%, και ο CAC 40 της Γαλλίας θα ανέβει  5 μονάδες, ή 0,1%, 

DAX  30

Τα futures του DAX... λίγο πριν το άνοιγμα των αγορών κινούνται με  κέρδη  0,31% στις 9,941μ..  κάτω από το σημείο περιστροφής των 10,070μ..  σε μία περιστροφή γύρω από τα όρια του μπλοκ των ΕΜΑ...

H οικονομία οδηγείται σε μία νέα φάση η οποία προσδιορίζεται από δύο αντίρροπες δυνάμεις - το υφεσιακό μείγμα της ακολουθούμενης δημοσιονομικής προσαρμογής ...και την αποκατάσταση της εμπιστοσύνης στην οικονομική κατάσταση της χώρας και την αύξηση των επενδύσεων... ALPHA BANK

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

Ελληνική Οικονομία

A majority thinks that the euro has been positive for those countries already using the currency but that introducing the euro would have negative consequences for their own country ..Research - EU

Eurobarometer: Support for the euro varies greatly among the seven newer EU Member States

20.05.2016 - The latest Eurobarometer survey carried out in April in seven non-euro area countries shows that 52% of respondents think that the introduction of the euro has had positive consequences in the countries that are already using the common currency. 

Pandemics pose some of the biggest threats in the world to people’s lives and to economies, and for the first time we will have a system that can move funding and teams of experts to the sites of outbreaks before they spin out of control ... Jim Yong Kim - World Bank

21/05/2016                                    Press Release 

World Bank Group Launches Groundbreaking Financing Facility to Protect Poorest Countries against Pandemics

SENDAI, Japan, May 21, 2016—The World Bank Group today launched the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), an innovative, fast-disbursing global financing mechanism ..