Despite a sharp drop in benchmark eurozone interest rates in
late 2008, foreign...a portion of banks' foreign currency reserves
and the rise in short-term debt...
A monthly drop
in energy prices in August this year reflects a fall in crude oil...rose slightly to 0.5 percentage points in August from the month before, a big...
negative, as confirmed by the first
estimate of annual real GDP, suggesting a drop...end-2009 level in the first quarter of 2010, while construc-
tion continued to...
