Short term, they will consider whether they will have to dip into their reserves and longer term, they will calculate whether they have enough generation and transmission.
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That seems reasonable, since the main reason that Thailand's currency, the baht, collapsed two years ago was a high ratio of short-term foreign debt to foreign reserves.
Governments possessing large cash reserves are now looking to maximize returns long-term and are doing so by divesting chunks of those reserves from their central bank and creating funds known as sovereign wealth funds (SWFs).
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Central banks currently hold 70% of their foreign-exchange reserves in longer-term securities and 30% in deposits.
Considerable international experience suggests that paying interest on reserves effectively manages short-term market rates.
Its seems they have no long-term plans, judging by their depleted reserves of talent, and the Australian media want answers.
This will set off a flurry of restructuring in Europe's biggest but worryingly sluggish economy, because German companies' balance sheets contain huge hidden reserves derived from long-term holdings of shares in other companies.
Bernanke enumerated a series of measures including putting upward pressure on short-term interest rates through interest payments on reserves held by financial institutions, ceasing reinvestment of principal payments on securities held by the Fed, and even selling those securities in the open market. (Read Bernanke Put Allows JP Morgan To Post Profits On 96.9% Of 2010 Trading Days).
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The government used to force pipeline companies to hold excess inventories of gas, either through long-term contracts with producers or their own underground reserves.
The recent discoveries will help Anadarko to build back its reserves and increase production in the long term.
In addition, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of Canada have also used their ability to pay interest on reserves to maintain a floor under short-term market rates.
When they do, the value of longer-term debt instruments will fall, while the value of bank reserves will be unchanged.
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But because banks are using central-bank liquidity to plug holes in their short-term funding, the money multiplier is collapsing: even as reserves swell, broad-money and credit growth is wilting.
Questions are being thrown at Mr Yushchenko himself over a scheme to use the Central Bank's reserves to prop up the market in short-term government debt in 1996 and 1997.
To influence demand, the central banks move a short-term interest rate up or down by adjusting the supply of bank reserves.
Its foreign-exchange reserves are now four times as large as its short-term foreign debt, and it has a current-account surplus.
It has operated as a clearing house for the foreign reserves of many countries and as a lender of short-term loans.
Fourth, if necessary, the Fed could reduce reserves by selling a portion of its holdings of long-term securities into the open market.
Many short-term foreign loans have been rolled over, relieving the potential strain on those reserves.
At the same time emerging economies' behaviour, particularly the accumulation of massive foreign-exchange reserves, has distorted capital markets by artificially pushing down long-term interest rates.
Will longer-term rates rise, and rise enough to induce banks to lever up their excess reserves, get them to re-enter the money creation business through the purchase of existing, now higher yielding securities?
Term deposits are be one of several tools that the Federal Reserve employs to drain reserves when policymakers judge that it is appropriate to begin moving to a less accommodative stance of monetary policy.
He said the channel had used some of its reserves rather than implement the whole cut in its programme budget in the short term.
Its reserves depleted, Cuba has recently been forced to finance critical imports through short-term loans at double-digit interest rates.
Although China has been accumulating reserves at a rapid rate, few of these appear to have been American bonds and short-term Treasury bills.
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