Paris, Berlin and Madrid cannot agree where Europe ends
The Industrial Accelerator Act would favour European goods in public contracts, and the three capitals differ on what counts as European.
Serguey Asael Shinder
Contributing writer
Software engineer, BSc First Class Honours in Computing and Information Systems. Reads central bank statements, minutes and statistical releases, and writes down what each one changes and what it leaves unchanged.
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Isabel Schnabel leaves the ECB board in January for a senior IMF post
She becomes the Fund's Financial Counsellor and head of Monetary and Capital Markets from 4 January 2027.
The Fed's Treasury portfolio grew only at the bill end
Total Treasury holdings are up $353.1bn on the year and bills are up $354.7bn - so everything longer than a bill is slightly smaller than it was.
Central banks spent this week talking about the plumbing
A discount window speech, a resolution speech, an outright bond sale and a payments deck - four institutions discussing the machinery that carries a rate decision.
Lane opens the euro area outlook with energy assumptions
The ICMB lecture puts four projection vintages side by side and adds the futures curve from the day before, so the reader can see how much of the outlook is the assumption.
The Bank of England argues no bank is too small to resolve
A Florence speech on the UK approach follows sessions on medium-sized banks - the category too large for a deposit payout and too small for a bespoke plan.
The RBI absorbed ₹2.29 lakh crore net in a single overnight session
Money market operations for 22 September show ₹7.45 lakh crore traded overnight at a weighted average of 5.11%, with the standing deposit facility taking ₹1.6 lakh crore at 5.00%.
Almost ten million people voted on what the next euro notes look like
The ECB reported the turnout for its public survey on the themes and designs of the next euro banknote series, one of the largest consultations it has run.
ONS publishes UK regional GDP back to 1998, down to local authority
The annual release covers country, region and local area in current prices and chained volume measures, with a full industry breakdown, city and enterprise regions, and revisions triangles.
An ECB discussion paper asks what AI does to price discovery
Discussion Paper 32 surveys how AI changes information production, labour demand and intermediation in securities markets, and what that implies for efficiency, competition and financial stability.