Jun 29, 2017 12:23 pm UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The Czech National Bank held its two-week repo rate at a record low of 0.05 pct, to keep its benchmark rate on hold today but the CB sends out a more dovish signal as widely expected. The discount rate and the Lombard...
Jun 21, 2017 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
The Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) faces daunting challenges, including balancing growth, minimizing currency volatility, promoting economic stability, preventing asset price bubbles, ensuring adequate market liquidity and...
RBNZ likely to stand pat on policy today
Jun 21, 2017 10:35 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Today Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) will announce its monetary policy around 21:00 GMT. Over the past two years or so, RBNZ has reduced rates from 3.5 percent to 1.75 percent, which is an all-time low, however, the...
Fed's tightening plans could be in jeopardy if weakness in inflation and retail sales continues
Jun 19, 2017 11:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Despite the unexpected dip in US consumer Price Index and drop in retails sales in May, the Federal Reserve went on to raise US benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months and also forecasted one more rise...
Jun 19, 2017 06:50 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is expected to leave rates unchanged this week. But surely it wont be long before the eventual hike. Public spending spurred strong investment growth in the economy. Investment growth has...
BOJ monetary policy: Assessing future bias
Jun 16, 2017 06:22 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
At todays meeting, policymakers at the Bank of Japan (BoJ) kept the policy unchanged, and the benchmark interest rate at -0.1 percent. Lets look at the current monetary policies, Bank of Japan had already shifted...
Lack of underlying price pressures likely to keep BoJ on its accommodative policy path
Jun 13, 2017 12:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Japan real GDP is growing at an above-trend pace and the job market is on fire with labour market conditions at levels not seen for several decades. However, underlying price pressures are just not building. Japanese...
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