Day: July 28, 2022
The Central Bank of Ireland welcomes today’s publication of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022. The Central Bank will continue to work with the Department of Finance throughout subsequent stages as the legislation progresses through the Oireachtas to enactment. Once the Bill has been enacted the Central Bank intends to publicly consult on […]
At last week’s meeting of the ECB’s Governing Council, we decided to increase our main policy rate by 50 basis points. This continues the normalisation of our monetary policy, a path that we had started to travel on last December. Our aim is to dampen the inflationary pressures that we’re seeing in the euro area […]
Central Bank Economic Letter finds that, while household deposits increased across all euro-area countries during the pandemic, Irish deposit growth was among the highest, exceeded only by Baltic countries. Unlike Ireland, these countries had very high pre-pandemic deposit growth, marking the Irish experience as exceptional. While the virus and related restrictions reduced spending, a higher […]
Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Gabriel Makhlouf spoke this afternoon about current trends in the Irish, German and Eurozone economies, as well as opportunities and challenges in the financial system at an event hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland and IHK Frankfurt, in partnership with Verband der Auslandsbanken in Frankfurt, Europa Union […]
It is a pleasure to address you today. I would particularly like to thank our Consul General Anne-Marie Flynn for organising this event.1 German – Irish economic relationship Ireland and Germany have excellent relations, politically, culturally and economically. These relations have been documented as far back as the 7th century. When reading about the relationship, […]
Interview with Governor Makhlouf conducted 16 June 2022 Niall Brady: Okay, well listen thanks again for taking the time to talk to me. You had a very busy week, from what I see yesterday was a busy day for you. Gabriel Makhlouf: I’ve had a busy fortnight. Niall Brady: Really? Why a busy fortnight Gabriel […]
Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Gabriel Makhlouf met with businesses and students from Tipperary yesterday during his day-long visit. Governor Makhlouf met with local entrepreneurs, staff and Government agencies at Tipperary Technology Park, where conversations included the importance of local digital hubs and local economic development in a hybrid working world recovering from […]
Shares of U.S. Steel Corp. X, +2.17% rose more than 4% in the extended session Thursday after the producer reported profit and sales above Wall Street expectations and said that it was “bullish” about its outlook, with other industries picking up the slack of slowing-down sectors. U.S. Steel said it earned $978 million, or $3.42 […]
• GBPCHF broke daily down channel • Likely to rise to resistance level 1.1770 GBPCHF continues to rise after the earlier breakout of the resistance trendline of the daily down channel from the start of July – which accelerated the active correction (iv). The breakout of the down channel follows the earlier upward reversal from […]
Shares of General Electric Co. GE, +2.18% rallied 2.3% in afternoon trading Thursday toward a seven-week high, to put them on track for the longest win streak in six years. The industrial conglomerate’s stock’s extended rally comes two days after GE reported a big second-quarter profit beat, surprisingly positive free cash flow and the first […]
