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Sweden needs policies that will keep interest rates low and curtail the damage the surging krona is causing for exporters in the largest Nordic economy, its premier said.
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Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said the country would need to act should additional krona strength add to pain for exporters, sticking by comments made earlier this week that drew fire from opposition politicians.
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Sweden’s government abandoned its hands-off stance on the krona and New Zealand announced it sold the kiwi, joining a growing band of countries to escalate their response to strengthening currencies.
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A former colleague of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has given up trying to persuade his fellow central bankers in Sweden to cut interest rates.
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Minutes from the latest Swedish interest rate decision revealed a growing preoccupation with the krona as the strengthening currency pushes down inflation.
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Sweden’s central bank is watching the krona as it predicts the currency’s recent gains are coming to an end, First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick said.
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Sweden’s krona was poised for its worst week since September 2011 as policy makers backtracked on earlier signals they’re happy with the currency’s appreciation.
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Swedish regulators should consider raising risk weights on mortgage assets above the 15 percent proposed last year to help the industry pad itself against potential losses, Riksbank Governor Stefan Ingves said.
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Riksbank Deputy Governor Lars E.O. Svensson will leave the Swedish central bank’s board when his term expires next month after failing to win backing for his calls for deeper interest rate cuts.
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Global regulators may force banks to hold more capital to guard against the risk that they may lose money from changes in interest rates, Stefan Ingves, chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, said today.
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