News

Riksbank's risk survey autumn 2009

20/11/2009 The financial crisis has peaked, but the markets are still not functioning normally. Propensity to take risk has increased over the past six months and liquidity on most of the submarkets is assessed to be better than it was in the spring. This is the opinion of participants in the Swedish fixed-income and foreign exchange markets who have taken part in the Riksbank’s latest risk survey, which is published today.   Read more

Ingves: Financial stability – where are we heading?

Picture of Governor Stefan Ingves. Photo Petter Karlberg 19/11/2009 "The financial crisis has revealed shortcomings in regulation and supervision. Discussions have therefore been initiated concerning the future formulation of regulations and supervision”, said Governor Stefan Ingves in a speech on Thursday. He discussed a number of proposed amendments to the international regulation of banks, and discussed the content of future efforts to prevent systemic risks.   Read more

Nyberg: In the wake of the financial crisis

Picture of Deputy Governor Lars Nyberg. Photo Petter Karlberg 18/11/2009 “When the financial imbalances caused by the financial crisis are corrected, this could have very serious consequences both for macroeconomic developments and for the functioning of the financial markets. In such a situation it becomes difficult to implement monetary policy and it has been necessary to supplement our traditional interest rate policy with various unconventional measures,” Deputy Governor Lars Nyberg pointed out in a speech held on Wednesday.   Read more

New issue of the Riksbank's journal Economic Review

Picture of the Riksbank's journal Economic Review 17/11/2009 One of the articles analyses the extent to which the Swedish money market risk premium has been affected by the current financial turmoil. Another article proposes a method for the comparison of various forecasters’ ability. The aim of the third article is to provide a greater understanding of how instability in price and wage formation can arise. The final article argues that anchoring fiscal expectations will become an increasingly important aspect of macroeconomic policy.   Read more
Lending in US dollars to be discontinued
19/11/2009
Today’s auction of 3-month and 12-month SEK loans with variable rate has now been completed
16/11/2009
Anders Vredin leaves the Riksbank to head up SNS
13/11/2009
On 16 November the Riksbank offers new SEK loans (3 and 12 months)
12/11/2009
Economic Commentaries: Which factor exerted the greatest influence upon the Swedish risk premium during the crisis?
10/11/2009
News archive 
CALENDAR
26/11/2009 09:30

Financial Stability Report 2009:2 published

26/11/2009 11:00

Press conference - Financial stability report

27/11/2009 13:00

General Council meeting

08/12/2009 13:00

Executive Board meeting

15/12/2009 09:00

Executive Board monetary policy meeting, No 6


See entire calendar
Key figures
THE RIKSBANK'S INFLATION TARGET
2.0%
The target has applied since 1995

Read more about the inflation target

INFLATION IN OCTOBER 2009
-1.5%
The next publication will be on Thursday 10th December at 09.30 a.m.

Read more about the current inflation rate

Link to Statistics Sweden, SCB

THE REPO RATE
0.25%
Applies from 28 October 2009. Next monetary policy meeting will be on 15 December 2009.

Press Release

Minutes of the Executive Board´s monetary policy meeting

Table, repo rate

MONETARY POLICY REPORT
The next Monetary Policy Report will be published on 11 February 2010.

Monetary Policy Report

The Riksbank

Sveriges Riksbank is Sweden’s central bank and a public authority under the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament.  The Riksbank is responsible for conducting monetary policy, the objective of which is to maintain a low and stable level of inflation. The Bank also has the task of ensuring that payments in the economy can be made safely and efficiently.

Economic Commentaries ”Economic Commentaries" will be published approximately once a month. In the series both members of the Executive Board and other employees at the Bank publish their analyses in subjects that are relevant to the Riksbank’s operations. Read more
How does the Riksbank control interest rates? It is the Executive Board of the Riksbank that decides the level of the repo rate. But, how does the Riksbank control the interest rate in practice? Read more
Financial trubulence The Riksbnk's response
Financial turbulence - the Riksbank's response The Riksbank has taken a number of actions as a result of the current financial turbulence. This page contains links to the information that we have published in connection with this. Read more