EURO je nadhodnotené
Šéf IMF tvrdí, že EUR je nadhodnotené. Takže môžeme potom očakávať obdobie oslabovania?
The euro is overvalued and the European Central Bank needs a political counterweight to compensate for the fact that is it ”ultra-powerful”, the head of International Monetary Fund was quoted as saying on Monday. IMF director general Dominique Strauss-Kahn praised the ECB for containing inflation, but told Le Monde newspaper that eurozones countries needed to appoint a political supremo to make sure economic growth was promoted.
”We are seeing great distortions between currencies. The yuan and the yen are undervalued, the euro is overvalued and the dollar is between the two,” he said.
”We are alerting governments so that they correct these imbalances and we have seen with pleasure that the Chinese authorities are progressively accepting an exchange rate that is more realistic, in their own interests,” he added.
”But a return to equilibrium does not depend on one single currency,” he said.
Strauss-Kahn said rising energy prices had pushed up inflation around the world, but he said the economic slowdown currently underway would lead to a reduction in oil prices.
”The IMF does not expect an explosion in the price of a barrel (of oil).”
Zdroj:www.libertypost.org
05.03.2008