{"id":39222,"date":"2013-06-23T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=39222"},"modified":"2013-06-23T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T15:56:54","slug":"central-banks-face-tough-exit-decisions-biss-caruana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/06\/23\/central-banks-face-tough-exit-decisions-biss-caruana\/","title":{"rendered":"Central banks face tough exit decisions &#8211; BIS&#8217;s Caruana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Major central banks will decide how and when to exit from extraordinary easy monetary policy with much less certainty that they probably will like but they cannot afford to wait for irrefutable evidence, said Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Speaking to the annual meeting of Basel-based BIS, Caruana said nobody really knows \u201chow central banks will exit, or what they will exit into.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp; &nbsp; BIS, known as the central bankers&#8217; bank, is owned by 60 central banks and monetary authorities, including the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. About 80 central bank governors and deputies listened to Caruana&#8217;s speech.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp; &nbsp; After five years of very low interest rates and massive asset purchases, major central banks will need to draw on all their communication skills to make the exit from such policy as smooth as possible.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;&nbsp; The expanded range of tools that central banks have crafted and used since the global financial crises \u2013 such as forward policy guidance, lending schemes, bond purchases \u2013 give central banks more flexibility and they will certainty need to use that, Caruana said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;And they will have to take decisions with much less certainty than they would probably like &#8211; waiting for irrefutable evidence may complicate exit and prove costly,&#8221; Caruana said.&nbsp;&#8220;The bigger the scale and scope of their interventions, the more difficult it will be to reduce them.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Since the beginning of the global financial crises almost six years ago, central bank balance sheets have doubled from $10 trillion to more than $20 trillion while governments have continued to pile up debt, which has risen by $23 trillion since 2007, Caruana said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Without such a forceful response, the global financial system could have collapsed, bringing the world economy down with it. But the recovery has been halting, fragile and uneven. Further rounds of policy easing has only lead to continued growth in private credit, weaker lending standards, record equity prices and record low long-term yields.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Major central banks will decide how and when to exit from extraordinary easy monetary policy with much less certainty that they probably will like but they cannot afford to wait for irrefutable evidence, said Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Speaking to the annual meeting of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/06\/23\/central-banks-face-tough-exit-decisions-biss-caruana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Central banks face tough exit decisions &#8211; BIS&#8217;s Caruana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}