In terms of external demand, exports have been on an increasing trend, with overseas economies continuing to grow at a moderate pace. For domestic private demand, business fixed investment has been on a moderate increasing trend, with corporate profits and business sentiment improving, and private consumption has increased its resilience against the background of steady improvement in the employment and income situation.
Countries that issued very generous or even unlimited guarantees of deposits will want to make sure such steps truly were emergency measures, by scaling them back to a more sustainable set of deposit insurance arrangements. Likewise, it would be desirable that guarantees for wholesale raisings in capital markets lapse into disuse as conditions improve.