Mixed water supply conditions expected to affect hydropower outlook in Pacific Northwest

In the week ending April 3, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 744,000, an increase of 16,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous ...

Ms Schnabel reviewed the financial market developments since the Governing Council’s previous monetary policy meeting on 20-21 January 2021. Sovereign yield curves across advanced economies had steepened, while new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases had fallen, the pace of vaccination had accelerated and a large fiscal stimulus programme in the United States was expected to be soon put into law. The measurable rise in commodity prices had added to upward pressure on long-term nominal bond yields. The increase in long-term bond yields had been more muted in the euro area than in other advanced economies. The euro area GDP-weighted yield curve remained considerably flatter than throughout most of the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic and it had largely the same shape and location as observed just before the tweet at 7:31am: ECB ACCOUNTS: THE VIEW WAS HELD THAT THE INCREASE OBSERVED IN SOVEREIGN YIELDS HAD REMAINED CONTAINED AND TO SOME EXTENT DECOUPLED FROM DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. tweet at 7:32am: ECB SAYS VIEW WAS PUT FORWARD THAT THE TIGHTENING MIGHT NOT BE SIZEABLE AND PERSISTENT ENOUGH TO AFFECT BROADER FINANCING CONDITIONS MATERIALLY #News #Forex #ECB tweet at 7:32am: ECB ACCOUNTS: THESE RISES WERE OFTEN OBSERVED TO HAVE OCCURRED FROM VERY LOW LEVELS. tweet at 7:33am: ECB ACCOUNTS: IT WAS ARGUED THAT HIGHER REAL RATES WERE NOT NECESSARILY A CAUSE FOR CONCERN

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday warned of the risk of a permanence divergence in the global economy, and urged major economies to strive to provide significant ...