ECB Monthly Bulletin | November 2008

Summary: 

The Monthly Bulletin was published from January 1999 to December 2014. The Monthly Bulletin was published one week after each monetary policy meeting of the ECB's Governing Council. It explained the monetary policy decision and provided a detailed analysis of the current economic situation and risks to price stability. 

Table of Contents: 

• Editorial
• Economic and Monetary Developments
  • The external environment of the euro area
  • Monetary and financial developments
  • Prices and costs
  • Output, demand and the labour market
  • Exchange rate and balance of payments developments
  • Boxes:
    • The results of the October 2008 bank lending survey for the euro area
    • Recent widening in euro area sovereign bond yield spreads
    • Recent increases in real yields and their implications for the analysis of inflation expectations
    • Abnormal volatility in global stock markets
    • Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the fourth quarter of 2008
    • The reliability of survey data during periods of financial turmoil
• Euro Area Statistics
•  Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Documents published by the European Central Bank since 2007
  • Glossary