The currency reserves have grown to more than 800 billion Swiss francs.
In the case of the interest rates, the Swiss national Bank SNB’s almost no room for manoeuvre, in order to help the corona’s crisis-stricken economy: The key interest rate, the SNB is leaving, therefore, at Minus 0.75 percent. Also, the national Bank expects that in 2020, with a sharp recession, the gross domestic product, GDP this year will fall by six percent.
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However, a topic stands at the monetary policy assessment, the focus of All the desires that have come in the last few weeks, the guardian of the currency to help the economy through the corona of a crisis. Two pots would have the SNB to distribute money. On the one hand, at the Moment, still lush doped distribution reserve. And on the other hand, the currency reserves that back to about 800 billion francs. These pots and pans to tap into, however, the SNB is fighting for years, and insists on their independence.
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Many Desires
Ideas, such as the national Bank of the economy under the arms could grab, there are many: in March, the ETH professors around KOF head Jan-Egbert Sturm had the idea of using money from the national Bank of corona, the unemployment insurance costs to cover. Rudolf Strahm suggested a few days ago, to distribute the capital gains of the SNB. And in Parliament is being debated at the Moment violently about whether the SNB should continue to support with the revenues of negative interest rates, the AHV.
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After all: The problem children of the financial crisis – the banks – are in this crisis much better. This is found in the recent financial stability berichtt of the SNB. This, the SNB has published in the run-up to the monetary policy assessment: The Corona-crisis and the significantly gloomier economic Outlook presented to the Swiss banks were confronted with major challenges. On the domestic market-focused institutions are likely to survive according to SNB, however, even this storm, the majority.
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