More trouble in sight for Cypriot banks as ECB mulls cutting back on QE
Cypriot banks may face additional challenges in reducing their stock of non-performing loans once the European Central Bank (ECB) decides to cut back its expanded...
Quantitative Easing
ECB’s Draghi says looking at options to drive QE forward
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Thursday the bank was looking at options to ensure it could pursue its unprecedented money-printing programme, with...
ECB launches second round of Cypriot bonds purchase
By Stelios Orphanides The Central Bank of Cyprus said that the European Central Bank and the euro area’s national central banks, collectively known as the...
‘It’s the economy, Stupid’
By Erol Riza The famous phrase which has been used many times since it was first uttered dates back to the 1992 presidential campaign of...
ECB buys €98m of Cypriot securities, €1.3bn eligible, Bank of Cyprus says
By Stelios Orphanides The European Central Bank purchased since July a total of €98m in Cypriot government securities with an average maturity of 5.27 years...
CBC starts buying bonds as part of €500m ‘QE’
THE Central Bank of Cyprus began purchases of Cypriot government bonds on Friday in the context of the European Central Bank ‘quantitative easing’ programme (QE),...
Extend, extend, pretend
By Johan van den Kerkhof Funny how the ECB began shaping its Quantitative Easing/kamikaze programme, in Cyprus of all places. Land of Aphrodite, and as...
Troika teams leave empty-handed as minister urges to get back on track
By Angelos Anastasiou AMIDST fears that a renewed suspension of the foreclosures law by parliament could pose risks similar to those currently faced by Greece,...
ECB eyes €120m of Cyprus’s bonds
By Stelios Orphanides CYPRUS IS eligible for a European Central Bank (ECB) bond-buying programme, the ECB indicated yesterday, but the bailed-out island will be required...
ECB’s QE may have a positive effect on Cyprus, economists say
By Stelios Orphanides The European Central Bank’s expanded asset purchasing programme announced today by its chairman Mario Draghi may help fight deflation and invigorate growth,...
ECB’s quantitative easing likely to prove ineffective
By Stelios Orphanides A European Central Bank decision to buy government bonds expected tomorrow, also known as quantitative easing, is likely to have a limited...
Countdown to quantitative easing?
By Stelios Papadopoulos At a Financial Times banking summit, Vitor Constancio, the European Central Bank’s vice president, gave a strong hint that the central bank...
Will the ECB do ‘whatever it takes’?
By Stelios Papadopoulos GLOBAL markets rallied recently on expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) had moved a step closer to making billions of euros...
ECB’s Weidmann says quantitative easing not out of the question
The European Central Bank could buy loans and other assets from banks to lift the euro zone economy, Germany’s Bundesbank has said, marking a radical...
The probability of a Eurozone break-up
By Stelios Papadopoulos ON March 6, the European Central Bank decided to keep the refinancing rate – the interest rate paid by the banks when...