Die deutsche Leistungsbilanz verzeichnete im September 2017 einen Überschuss von 25,4 Mrd €. Das Ergebnis lag um 7,5 Mrd € über dem Niveau des Vormonats.

In the assessment of Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret, persistently low interest rates are putting a long-standing system of values in danger of toppling. At a speech in Frankfurt, he noted that artificially low interest rates could not only frustrate the long-term strategies of savers, investors and credit institutions, but even prevent economically necessary adjustments.

A team of historians will be undertaking a comprehensive exploration of the history of the Reichsbank, the Bank deutscher Länder and the Bundesbank during the period from 1923 to 1969. In carrying out their work, they will not be bound by guidelines on the project’s content or any other instructions from the Bundesbank.

Last year, the Deutsche Bundesbank successfully completed the transfer of its gold stocks from New York. "The realisation of the gold storage plan is therefore well ahead of the original schedule," said Carl-Ludwig Thiele, Member of the Bundesbank’s Executive Board, at a press conference in Frankfurt am Main.