Tuesday, January 24, 2006

BoE’s Lomax warns of impact of global imbalances
Of particular concern is the possibility that the “global savings glut” described by incoming Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, may stop being used to purchase US assets. There is evidence that foreign investors, including some Asian central banks have already started cutting pack on such purchases. Net capital flows into the US in fell from $104bn in October to $89.1bn in November, though this was still sufficient to cover that month’s current account deficit of $64.2bn.

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