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Emerging market central banks spending billions of dollars to defend their currencies risk depleting their reserves without much success as a deepening global financial crisis sends investors towards safe havens. more...

There's much talk on Monday about a potential plan to vastly increase the buying power of the yet to be fully funded EFSF, so that it can stand up to the problems in Europe with a more robust balance sheet. What does that mean for the role of central banks? CNBC's Steve Liesman joins the...

After a weekend of talks at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington over how best to deal with the euro zone debt crisis, we appear no closer to a resolution. more...

The G20 promises help, but riskier currencies still take a hit - it's time for your FX Fix. more...

Indonesia's central bank stepped in on Thursday to prop up the rupiah, intervening in the forex market and buying government bonds after selling by foreign investors drove the domestic currency sharply lower.** more...

Now that the Federal Reserve has launched Operation Twist, it's the European Central Bank's turn - and they may go further. more...

"Market risks are increasing to the downside, with financial strains becoming more apparent, making it a bit like 2008," Stewart Richardson, partner at RMG Wealth Management, told CNBC. more...

European central banks have become net buyers of gold for the first time in more than two decades, the latest sign of how the turbulence in the currency and debt markets has revolutionized the bullion market. The FT reports. more...

Alexandra Lebenthal, CEO of Alexandra Lebenthal, told CNBC she was pleased by yesterday's coordinated dollar injections by five central banks. "Global markets are so connected that there has to be a concerted effort on what to do," she said. more...

Paul Day, chief strategist at Market Securities, told CNBC that dollar lending by central banks would not solve Europe's problems. "This is obviously an issue to do with liquidity, rather than solvency," he said. more...

The coordinated injection of dollars into banking systems by five of the world's largest central banks is the biggest news in the markets, Valentijn Van Nieuwenhuijzen, head of strategy at ING Investment Management, told CNBC. more...

The arm-in-arm effort by central bankers to increase U.S. dollar liquidity in Europe is essentially a band-aid solution, and the euro is already backing off its gains. more...

The Euro rallies after major central banks agree to provide dollar liquidity in a coordinated act, with David Gilmore, Foreign Exchange Analytics partner. more...

The Swiss central bank's decision to set a limit on how much the Swiss franc can appreciate against the euro is "a huge mistake," investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC.com on Wednesday. more...

China's consumer price inflation will remain high in the near future, although prices will gradually fall, and Beijing needs to be on alert, deputy central bank governor Ma Delun said on Sunday. more...

China should diversify its huge foreign exchange reserves into non-financial assets to hedge against risks from a long-term decline in the U.S. dollar, Xia Bin, an academic adviser to the central bank said on Tuesday. more...

As the Swiss National Bank (SNB) gets ready to meet on Wednesday, a number of analysts say the central bank has few choices to try and stem the franc's recent rise. more...

Central bankers are in the business of "currency manipulation," James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, told CNBC Thursday.* He wants a "modernized, 21st century gold standard that checks the capacity of central banks to print money." more...

Jonathan Cavenagh, Currency Strategist at Westpac Bank, Australia (Sydney), says the Japanese and Swiss central banks will not stop intervening because both countries are dependent on export-generated economic growth. more...

South Korea's central bank on Thursday held its policy interest rate steady for a second straight month, as expected, after signaling that recent market turmoil had put its rate "normalization" plans on hold despite surging inflation. more...