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Governor Erik Thedéen visited the central bank in Kyiv
18/12/2023 -On Friday, Governor Erik Thedéen visited the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), where he met and discussed the current situation with the bank's management. Mr Thedéen is thus the first central bank governor to visit the NBU in Kyiv. The Riksbank...
The Riksbank reduces the currency risk in the foreign exchange reserves
21/09/2023 -The Riksbank announced in June that it intended to investigate the issue of reducing currency risk in the foreign exchange (FX) reserves. The Riksbank has now decided to hedge a part of the FX reserves by selling USD 8 billion and EUR 2 billion...
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 8 February 2023
20/02/2023 -Inflation is far too high and has continued to rise. For inflation to fall and stabilise around the target within a reasonable time, the Executive Board has decided to raise the Riksbank's policy rate by 0.5 percentage points to 3.0 per cent.
The Riksbank is considering hedging part of the foreign exchange reserves
29/06/2023 -Within the framework of asset management, the Riksbank intends to examine the prerequisites for reducing the currency risk, where a possible measure is to hedge part of the foreign exchange reserves. The starting point for this is that the...
Eight monetary policy meetings a year from 2024
21/09/2023 -The Executive Board has decided that with effect from 2024 they will hold eight instead of five monetary policy meetings per year. The Executive Board has also taken a decision on the meetings calendar for the full year 2024.
Political uncertainty in EU worries market participants
14/01/2018 -The majority of the market participants responding to the spring Risk Survey consider there are risks linked to political uncertainty in the EU. The low interest rates, household indebtedness and high housing and property prices are also...
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 20 December 2016
28/08/2018 -At the monetary policy meeting on 20 December, the Executive Board of the Riksbank decided to continue purchasing government bonds during the first six months of 2017, both nominal and real bonds, each corresponding to SEK 15 billion. In...
Important to have sufficient foreign currency reserve rapidly available in a crisis
14/01/2018 -The Riksbank welcomes the fact that the question of financial independence is further being investigated by the Ministry of Finance, and supports several of the proposals in the draft referral to the Council on Legislation. But the Riksbank must...
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 26 April 2017
17/01/2018 -At the monetary policy meeting on 26 April, the Executive Board of the Riksbank decided to continue purchasing government bonds during the second half of 2017, both nominal and real bonds, each corresponding to SEK 7.5 billion. Maturities and...
The Riksbank’s Business Survey: Industrial activity stronger than expected
14/01/2018 -According to Swedish manufacturing companies, international demand was stronger than expected and the economic situation has therefore continued to improve since last autumn. This is revealed by the Riksbank’s February 2017 Business Survey.