Announcements of the 2013 Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksba...

The Swedish financial markets are functioning well despite the continued uncertainty in the euro area, according to the market participants who responded to the Riksbank's risk survey in spring 2013. It is still developments in the euro area that ...

Deputy Governor Lars E.O. Svensson will leave the Riksbank when his period of office expires on 20 May. The reason is that he has not managed to get support for a monetary policy that he considers would lead to better target fulfilment for both ...

By: as expected but Sveriges Riksbank has dampened future repo rate hike expectations in its statement SEK is under fire a little with EURSEK at highest levels since March 25

The Federal Reserve has not done enough to lower U.S. borrowing costs to boost economic growth, a top Fed official said on Friday, citing his outlook for overly low inflation and overly high unemployment over the next two to three years. Since the ...

NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB has decided to officially list the followingcertificates with effect from May 2, 2013: Name Short name Trading code Kommuninvest KOMC 1405 KOMC_1405Landshypotek AB LAHC 1405 LAHC_1405Länsförsäkringar Bank AB LFBC 1405 ...

A former colleague of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has given up trying to persuade his fellow central bankers in Sweden to cut interest rates. Deputy Governor Lars E.O. Svensson's decision yesterday to quit when his term ends in May was ...

The IMF has recently argued that Europe's financial sector has done much to address the recent financial crisis. This column argues that vulnerabilities remain, and calls for intensified efforts. Europe-wide stress tests will play a crucial role: ...

Police have detained four people in connection with a fire that killed 70 cows in the barn of an agricultural high school about 50 kilometres south of Stockholm. Swedish farm school blaze kills 70 cattle (22 Mar 13) The blaze took place in late ...

Bankers have barely been able to draw breath in recent years, after sweeping reforms of global capital and liquidity rules under Basel III. Too bad. In a speech in March, Stefan Ingves, the chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, ...