• Top of the campaign agenda is how to counter the cuts from central government with pressure mounting on the council's large reserves.

    BBC: Leicestershire election 2013: Parties prepare for battle

  • When nuclear fusion uses up a star's fuel, in the central high-pressure stellar core where fusion occurs, the star will collapse fairly violently.

    CNN: Why gamma-ray burst shocked scientists

  • Speaking on the eve of a review of monetary policy by the Bank of Japan, Noda also vowed to work with the central bank more closely to support the economy, repeating wording the government has used in the past to pressure the central bank.

    MSN: Japan PM signals election can wait, defies opposition

  • In the European Central Bank, the pressure has been on them not doing enough.

    FORBES: Will The Central Banks Disappoint?

  • Pressure in Central Asia and the Middle East should not reduce the focus in other regions of the world such as in Latin America.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Latin America in American national security

  • More important, if they succeed even in modestly loosening the money markets, they will reduce the pressure on central banks to use the broader tool of lower interest rates.

    ECONOMIST: A collaboration over the credit crisis

  • Thailand's central bank has been under pressure from the government to intervene aggressively to tamp down the strength of the baht.

    WSJ: Asian Governments Take Measures to Battle Strong Currencies

  • The threat of wage inflation is piling extra pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates to an expected 4.25% on Thursday.

    FORBES: Waging War On Wages

  • Pressure on the central bank to ease policy has grown after the government took steps to reduce its fiscal deficit and boost growth.

    WSJ: India Central Bank Cuts Lending Rate

  • The central bank has been under pressure from Japan's new government to take more aggressive steps to fight the long deflationary slump in the world's third largest economy.

    NPR: World Stocks Tentative Amid US Debt Impasse

  • Both French and German leaders, along with the European Central Bank, are putting pressure on so-called peripheral economies to extend austerity measures to try to balance their budgets.

    BBC: German economic growth slows sharply

  • In December, the European Central Bank finally succumbed to pressure and launched a program providing substantial additional liquidity to European banks by making unlimited, low interest-rate, three-year loans available to banks.

    FORBES: Two Years Of Fears Disappear

  • In the past few months, the government and businesses have piled pressure on the central bank to cut rates to resuscitate the economy, which is growing at its slowest pace in a decade.

    WSJ: India Cuts Policy Rate

  • "He has constantly maintained his goals of keeping the central bank independent of political pressure and the adoption of international standards, not only at the BOT but across the entire Thai banking industry, " says Piti.

    CNN: Thailand's New Enforcer

  • Spanish bank shares recovered from pressure that followed the central bank's confirmation that a banking audit would be delayed until September.

    WSJ: Europe Stocks Rise

  • That puts new pressure on the European Central Bank, whose role is to keep a lid on eurozone inflation whilst supporting economic growth.

    FORBES

  • The expanding job market will add to pressure on the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, to raise interest rates again in the New Year to cool the booming US economy.

    BBC: US job growth continues

  • One effect you can bet on - the Bundesbank is piling on the pressure for the European Central Bank to raise interest rates at next month's meeting, and by at least 0.5%.

    BBC: The demon is out there

  • Adding to the pressure, the European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that it will continue providing emergency funding for Cypriot banks until Monday, but no longer - unless there is a bailout deal to ensure that the banks can be made financially viable.

    BBC: Cyprus government 'to present bailout plan B on Thursday'

  • With no need to pay dividends (state firms do not have to make any transfers to central government) and little shareholder pressure to ensure that their investment is cost-effective, Chinese firms went on a capital-spending binge, concentrated in industries such as aluminium, steel, car production and cement.

    ECONOMIST: The frugal giant

  • She will also resist any pressure to allow the European Central Bank to lend directly to governments.

    BBC: Growth versus austerity

  • Pressure groups also check excessive central power and give governments expert advice.

    ECONOMIST: POLITICS BRIEF

  • Netanyahu has been under pressure from Israel's central bank to maintain fiscal credibility at a time when the economy is slowing and tax revenues are falling short.

    MSN: Israel's budget a political hot potato

  • Many factors are causing coffee's problems, experts say, including climate changes in some coffee-growing areas and population growth in Central America, which has led to pressure to convert coffee plots into housing and shopping malls.

    WSJ: The Indiana Jones of Coffee

  • All of which means that for the foreseeable future there will be even more pressure on a reluctant European Central Bank to intervene in government bond markets to keep implicit borrowing costs for Spain and Italy below penal levels.

    BBC: After downgrades, all eyes on ECB

  • Some pressure is also being felt by central banks in Europe to follow Mr Greenspan's lead.

    ECONOMIST: Alan Greenspan��s miracle cure

  • Central-bank purchases will not alleviate the pressure on backsliding governments if countries have to meet specific conditions.

    ECONOMIST: The European Central Bank

  • In particular, attention has returned to sovereign credit risk, particularly in the eurozone and its periphery, where weaker countries, like Greece and the more indebted of the Central and Eastern European countries, are under pressure.

    FORBES: Doctor Doom

  • Increasing density is smart and necessary, especially near a transportation hub as solid as Grand Central, but there needs to be equal pressure applied to making sure that district-wide development is of the highest quality, encompassing a richer mix of scales and uses, to ensure that Midtown is once again glamorous from curb to storefront to skyscraper spire.

    WSJ: Not Visionary Enough | By Julie V. Iovine

  • Under pressure from the government, the Japanese central bank doubled its inflation target to 2% last month.

    BBC: Japan markets boosted by central bank nominee reports

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