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It is too risky to continue to postpone a rate hike. Especially since there are "reasonable terms" so that they are raised. The message delivered by Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is very clear.

And the market returns to fear monetary tightening, perhaps sooner than imagined. Considering US central bank’s meeting on next 20 and 21 September, there are very few contrary convinced that the institute led by Janet Yellen will resume as early as this month, the normalization of monetary policy started in December 2015 for the first time since June 2006. This is demonstrated by a survey of the Wall Street Journal, that only 13.1% of economists expects an increase in Fed rates in less than two weeks. According to 73.8% of respondents, there will not be tight until December.

The ECB’s board has confirmed the interest rates at 0%. Also unchanged rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility, respectively, still 0.25% and -0.40%.

The plan of purchases "Quantitative easing" has been extended until March 2017 "and beyond if necessary." The institute claimed to maintain asset purchases of €80 billion Euro per month.

he European Central Bank (ECB) last week bought € 11.14 billion worth of government bonds in the week to Sept 2 as part of the Quantitative Easing program, it took the total it owns to 1 trillion euros. Including corporate, covered and asset-backed bonds, last week’s ECB purchases came in at 13.75 billion euro.This was announced by the ECB itself.

The ECB’s decision-making body will meet again on Thursday and Mario Draghi might announce the extension of the duration of QE, which officially should end in March 2017, already extended by six months.

The negative rates of Switzerland (-0.75%), forced down by the Central Bank to protect the franc from dangerous flare-ups against major currencies, are keeping many customers away from banks.

As Helvetia Ag told Bloomberg, keeping the cash in a box at home or at the company, costs, for each million, 1000 francs insurance, instead of one million Swiss francs in the current account has maintained an average annual cost of 7,500 francs for the customers. But the sum doesn’t include the costs of logistics or security sistems.

The global economic recovery is losing momentum and should be supported: it is the message that Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund launched the leaders of the G20 countries and the whole world, on the eve of the summit of Hangzhou, China, on 4 and 5 September. Support for demand, structural reforms, revival of trade, are the strong actions indicated by Lagarde.

"The pendulum of politics is likely to move against economic openness and without strong action the world could experience a disappointing growth for a long time," she said, calling to boost trade and to send positive messages on globalization, which in many benefited. "It ‘s easy to blame trade for all the ills of a country: block free trade would result in stopping an engine that brings benefits in the world for decades".

he greek bond market remains the most lucrative on the European scene. Athens has in fact placed 1.14 billion of six-month bonds offering a yield of 2.97%, unchanged from the previous auction. The demand from institutional investors was stable with a coverage ratio of 1.30. Yields also remain stable with decades of greek bonds offering a yield of 8.10% to the 70.30 price. As for bonds maturing in 2019 and 4.75% coupon, the rate stood at 8.60 compared with a price in area 91. The stabilization of prices is determined by the GDP, no longer in free fall, but in the process of settling.

The moment in which the securities issued or guaranteed by Greece will be included in the plan of the ECB purchases, ie Qe, are not yet certain. This is the content of the written response from the President of the institute, Mario Draghi, to request the Greek MEP Dimitrios Papadimoulis.

Negative rates bring more advantages than disadvantages in the Swiss economy. With this motivation Andréa Maechler, management member of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), defends the continuation of the strategy.

"The financial markets expect a further easing of monetary policy in Britain and in the euro zone, and even in the USA the increase in interest rates goes only slowly," she said in the interview published on "SonntagsBlick" on Sunday. SNB currently applies -0.75% rate on deposits stored with the central bank.