The recent ECB and BoJ policy statements have reduced the likelihood of a Euro-zone rate cut and has increased pressure on Governor Shirakawa at the BoJ to take further action.
She had paid but the council said she was in the "red zone" and had only paid the rate for the "purple zone".
The March unemployment rate for the euro zone rose to 12.1%, the highest since 1995.
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In addition, the euro-zone jobless rate for February was in line with expectations at 12%.
Britain may want sterling to be brought in at a lower rate than euro-zone governments would like.
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The Euro zone inflation rate is the lowest since August of 2010.
The German jobless rate actually fell to 8% in September, the Federal Labor Agency's statistics showed Wednesday, well below the 9.5% rate for the euro zone.
New data from the European Union showed that the euro zone unemployment rate had risen to 10% in November, the highest rate since the euro was introduced in 1999.
Europe's slide toward deflation is not helped by its weak economic environment: The euro zone jobless rate rose to 9.5% in May, from 9.3% in April, hardly evidence of green shoots.
But volumes will fall because corporate customers will no longer need to hold accounts in several currencies, and banks will no longer be able to use the money market to profit from interest-rate differentials between euro-zone currencies.
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At 7.9%, the euro zone's unemployment rate is roughly where it was at the peak of the last cycle, in late 2000.
So far, there is little sign that these rate increases are holding the euro zone back, but eventually they will have an effect.
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Gross domestic product in the Euro zone dropped at the sharpest rate in four years, it was reported Thursday.
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The zone's headline inflation rate has stayed stubbornly above 2% in the past year, although core inflation (which excludes energy and food) is now 1.8%.
If the migration rate outside of the 10-mile zone were greater than 20 percent, it fears that those living inside that radius could get trapped.
Look further ahead, and it is probable that there will be a disagreement between Britain and euro-zone countries over the exchange rate at which Britain joins the euro.
It is notable that the euro zone's overall inflation rate is now higher than that in some of the European Union countries that have kept their own currencies.
"A monetary zone must have an exchange rate policy or else it ends up subjected to an exchange rate that does not match the true state of its economy, " he said.
Because the euro-11 account for about half of Britain's exports, they fear that this will put them at a disadvantage relative to the euro zone, where exchange-rate risk will have disappeared.
For most of the past year, the European Central Bank (ECB) has made vast quantities of cash available to euro-zone banks at a fixed rate of 1%, which in turn has pushed down mortgage rates.
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Separately, euro-zone inflation fell to an annual rate of 1.2% in April, the lowest in more than three years.
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Within less than a decade, Germany halved its unemployment rate, while the rest of the Euro Zone remained stuck with double-digit unemployment.
America's potential growth rate is higher than that of the euro zone and Japan, thanks largely to faster population growth and more flexible labour and product markets.
We assume an average quarter-on-quarter growth rate of 0.3% in the euro zone and of 0.5% in Germany.
But he might not like a further corollary: under a target-zone system, responsibility for exchange-rate management, as well as for controlling inflation, has to be given to the same policymaker.
In the euro zone as a whole, the unemployment rate in January was 7.4%, a percentage point or so below the rate at which, on past form, you might expect inflationary pressure to rise.
It plans to create a "growth zone" in which companies would get business rate relief in exchange for helping people get training and jobs.
French business conditions were downbeat in January, while the overall business PMI for the Euro zone showed contraction, but at the slowest rate of contraction in 10 months.
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