8  BIS central bankers’ speeches  By focusing on the four largest responses – “around plus 2 percent,” “around plus 1 percent,” “around 0 percent,” and “Don’t have clear views” – among the aforementioned options, the following points are observed: •  Second, among “all firms, all industries,” the general price outlook for one year ahead is relatively widespread among the options compared with the sales price outlook.
Precisely because Otmar Issing has been so successful in nurturing the Eurosystem’s monetary policy strategy and thus the underlying basis for the stable euro, his forthcoming retirement at the end of May will not change the fundamental principles of the single European monetary policy. 2  BIS Review 38/2006