Welcome address by Mr Philip R Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the ECB Conference on Money Markets 2023, Frankfurt am Main, 9 November 2023.

Sberbank's profits hit a record for the quarter.

China's combined tax and fee support policies have helped ease the burden on market entities and stabilize the macroeconomy, official data showed on Sept 29.

On July 7, 2022, the Macro-Finance Salon (No. 188) was held online. This event was co-hosted by the International Monetary Institute (IMI) and the Department of Monetary Finance, School of Finance, Renmin University of China (RUC), and organized by the Macroeconomic Research Office of IMI. During the seminar, Zhang Bin, Deputy Director, Institute of World Economics and Politics, CASS, delivered a keynote speech titled “New Citizens and New Models: Housing Markets for the future”. Professor Wang Guogang, School of Finance, RUC; Member of Academic Committee, CASS; Li Xunlei, Chief Economist, Zhongtai Securities; Xia Lei, Chief Economist, Sealand Securities and Chen Xiaoliang, Associate Editor&Reviewer, Institute of Economics, CASS gave speeches respectively. The salon was moderated by Zhao Xijun, Co-Dean, Academy of China Capital Market, RUC.

For the third quarter, the bankers' macroeconomic heat expectation index is projected at 31.9 percent

China's central bank on Mar.30 unveiled measures to bankroll the push for rural revitalization and underpin macroeconomic stabilization efforts, calling on financial institutions to strengthen credit guarantees for food security, and ramp up funding for major farm products including soybeans and oilseeds.

Despite a slowdown compared with previous years, China's GDP growth target of around 5.5 percent points to the nation's proactive pursuit of economic progress on a high base and necessitates robust support from macroeconomic policies