Hints and tips:
...(I wrote in September why I thought even the hawks should support a muscular stimulus package.)...
...In the frame François Villeroy de Galhau: the civil servant The Banque de France governor is seen as the favourite candidate from the eurozone’s second-largest economy....
...Top French officials including François Villeroy de Galhau, governor of the Banque de France, have called for greater use of the euro in international transactions in a bid to challenge the dollar’s dominance...
...The last meal that truly impressed me was a dinner at Claude Colliot in the Marais....
...These are areas where Jean-Claude Juncker’s successor as president of the commission will wield more influence than the next ECB chief....
...A Spanish replacement is the most likely though central bank insiders have balked at the idea of a politician such as Luis de Guindos, finance minister, securing the position....
...“I doubt the hawks offered an unconditional surrender on sovereign purchases....
...The decision to extend France’s deadline fits a pattern of commission decisions that has upset budget deficit hawks in Berlin hoping for more stringent enforcement from Brussels....
...Jean-Claude Juncker pledged to create a European “capital markets union” as he won a five-year mandate to run the EU’s executive arm amid jeers and boos from eurosceptics....
...Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg’s prime minister, won another term as president of the eurozone group of finance ministers as compatriot and inflation hawk Yves Mersch claimed the vacant seat on the European...
...“Some of the hawks may argue that some political decisions in Spain and Italy contributed to increase investors’ concerns....
...For 30 years, whenever economic crises hit the world, Jean-Claude Trichet was at the centre of action....
...As the representative of the largest and strongest European economy, as well as its major creditor, Mr Stark has been de facto No. 2 on the ECB’s board, behind president Jean-Claude Trichet....
...As FT Alphaville noted, the surprise suggestion on Thursday by ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet of an April rate rise “went down a treat in the foreign exchange markets“, if not elsewhere....
...Mr Weber had a reputation as a monetary hawk and strict disciplinarian who would ensure that the ECB placed currency stability and controlling inflation at the top of his agenda....
...So Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, have sought to curb talk about who will succeed Jean-Claude Trichet, the French ECB president, whose non-renewable eight-year...
...Next October sees the end of the non-renewable eight-year term of Mr Trichet, a former Banque de France governor....
...Elwin de Groot, at Rabobank, agreed....
...The yen has lost early gains, which came as traders noted the appointment of a fiscal hawk to the position of Japanese economy minister. The yen is now down 0.2 per cent to Y82.99....
...By the same logic, a French official said, Italy was sponsoring Luxembourg’s central bank chief Yves Mersch – a northern European inflation hawk – in the hope of pushing for balance in the form of Mr Draghi...
...On Thursday, Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president, may point out the volatility of monthly numbers....
...Hints from ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet have led central-bank watchers to expect a further rise in the cost of borrowing this week....
...There is a hard core of hawks in the governing council who cherish a monetarist agenda. This agenda has two items....
...Mr Trichet, in the job for more than a year, may have been tired having recently returned from a seminar in Rio de Janeiro....
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