Bank Negara Malaysia unexpectedly cuts interest rate by 25 bps

Jan 22, 2020 10:56 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Malaysian central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, unexpectedly lowered its Overnight Policy Rate by 25 basis points to 2.7 percent. The consensus expectation was to keep the interest rate on hold at 3 percent. This is the...

BI likely to stay pat on Jan 23, closely monitor recent performance of IDR: ING Economics

Jan 22, 2020 07:40 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy

Bank Indonesia (BI) is expected to keep rates unchanged at its monetary policy meeting on January 23, with monetary authorities closely monitoring the recent performance of the IDR, according to the latest research report...

FxWirePro: EUR/CAD Regains Ahead of BoC And ECB And Deploy Suitable Hedging Vehicles

Jan 21, 2020 10:47 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks

Bank of Canada is scheduled on this Wednesday, they held their policy rate unchanged at 1.75% in Governor Polozs fourth-from-last decision, a small deceleration in headline CPI with unchanged core CPI inflation, and mixed...

FxWirePro: CAD/JPY Options Strips Strategy Ahead of Monetary Policy Season

Jan 20, 2020 11:36 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks

The major central banks may also come back in focus, starting with BOJ (Tue), BOC (Wed) and ECB (Thu) this week, Fed and BOE next week and RBA in early February. The BOE and RBA may be in play, with rate cut expectations...

BoJ likely to stand pat tomorrow, slightly revise up its FY20 GDP growth forecast: DBS Economics & Strategy

Jan 20, 2020 04:28 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is expected to stand pat at its two-day monetary policy meeting, scheduled to be concluded tomorrow, according to the latest research report from DBS Economics Strategy. GDP growth should have...

Can 2020 Be The Year For Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)? Crypto Dad Already Began The Race

Jan 17, 2020 10:48 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Central Banks

After sovereign nations grilling Facebooks Libra, many central banks appear to be positioned optimistically for designing developing the native cryptocurrencies, and Year-2020 can witness some experimentations in this...

BI likely to maintain policy rate at 5 pct on Jan 23, remain open to future rate cuts: Scotiabank

Jan 17, 2020 05:16 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy

The Bank Indonesia (BI) is expected to maintain its policy rate at 5 percent at its monetary policy meeting on January 23, but with the door remaining open to future rate cuts amid Indonesias benign inflation outlook,...