Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has warned against frantic activism given the low inflation rates in the euro area. The drastic drop in energy prices constitutes a "decent stimulus package", he said in an interview with the German news weekly Der Spiegel.

Die Deutsche Bundesbank hat im Geschäftsjahr 2011 einen Jahresüberschuss von 0,6 Mrd € erzielt, nach 2,2 Mrd € im Vorjahr. Dieser wurde gemäß § 27 Nr. 2 Bundesbankgesetz am 13. März 2012 in voller Höhe an den Bund abgeführt. „Der Grund für den Rückgang des Gewinns findet sich vor allem in der Erhöhung der Risikovorsorge“, erklärte Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann am Dienstag auf der Jahrespressekonferenz der Deutschen Bundesbank.

G20 finance ministers and central bank governors reaffirm their commitment to international economic and financial cooperation at their two-day meeting in Baden-Baden.

The Bundesbank posted a profit of €1 billion for the 2016 financial year, representing a year-on-year fall of €2.2 billion. Speaking at the press conference on the annual accounts, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann attributed this to higher risk provisioning. Distributable profit in 2016 amounted to €0.4 billion.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann believes that abolishing cash is not the right means of stimulating the sluggish economy in some euro-area countries. At the Bundesbank’s payments symposium, Weidmann stated that the decisive factor was to address weak economic growth.

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Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has once again called for monetary policy in the euro area to be normalised when the inflation outlook calls for it. In an interview with the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag, he said he wouldn’t rule out higher inflation rates either. “In any event, I will strongly recommend keeping a close eye on the risk of an inflation rate that is too high and not only on the risk of one that is too low,” he commented.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has warned of the risks and side-effects of the Eurosystem's extremely expansionary monetary policy. Among other things, it significantly weakened the disciplining of fiscal policy by the financial markets, he said at an event in Essen.

Until the end of 2015, Germany has assumed the presidency of the gatherings of the G7, the seven most advanced industrial countries in the world. During this time, the sessions of the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors will be chaired by Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann and Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.