3/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  The main contributors to the profit were: net interest income of € billion; the net result of the pooling of the Eurosystem’s monetary income, amounting to € billion; realized gains of € billion; and income from equity shares and participating interests of € billion.
Given the stronger performance of the U.S. economy, the trade-weighted value of the dollar has risen roughly 20 percent since 2014. Such a large appreciation of the dollar means that we will “export” some of our strength to our trading partners and “import” some of their weakness. Growth and inflation remain stubbornly low for most of our major trading partners.