ECB Monthly Bulletin | April 2010

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:
    • Prospects for the labour market recovery in the United States
    • Weak money growth: a review of past episodes
    • Money markets’ reaction to announcements regarding
      the phasing-out of non-standard measures
    • Profit developments and their behaviour after periods of recession
    • Business investment, capacity utilisation and demand
    • The current euro area recovery across economic sectors from a historical perspective
    • The international dimension of bank deleveraging
• Articles
  • Tools for preparing short-term projections of euro area inflation
  • Measures taken by euro area governments in support of the financial sector
  • Prospects for real and financial imbalances and a global rebalancing
• Euro Area Statistics
•  Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • The TARGET (Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer) system
  • Documents published by the European
  • Central Bank since 2009
  • Glossary