The Bundesbank posted a profit of €1.0 billion for the 2016 financial year, compared with €3.2 billion in 2015. Owing to an allocation to the reserves, the remaining distributable profit amounted to €0.4 billion and was transferred in full today to the Federal Government pursuant to section 27 number 2 of the Bundesbank Act (Bundesbankgesetz).

On February 23, 2017, the annual report 2016 was presented in a press conference. The Annual Report represents the financial statements of the Deutsche Bundesbank and gives an overview of the economic and monetary development in the reporting period and on the tasks and activities of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

The February 2017 Monthly Report comments on the economic development in Germany in winter 2016/2017.

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.

Mit einer großen Feier wurde am Freitag, den 10. Februar 2017, in Hamburg der Amtswechsel an der Spitze der Hauptverwaltung in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Schleswig-Holstein begangen. Anfang Januar hat Arno Bäcker das Amt als Präsident der Hauptverwaltung übernommen.

Demand in the USA and other industrial nations collapsed dramatically during the financial crisis and yet this did not lead to deflation. The reasons for this have still not been fully explained. A new study examines the extent to which financial shocks have a bearing on the path of inflation.