SNB monetary policy: Assessing future bias
Mar 16, 2017 09:51 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) in its monetary policy meeting today decided to maintain its current expansionary monetary policy, which basically means Interest on sight deposits at the SNB will remain at 0.75% and...
PBoC likely to hike another 20bps by end-2017, says ANZ Research
Mar 16, 2017 08:57 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
The Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) is expected to raise its interest rate further by around 20 basis points by the end of this year leading the 7-day reverse repo rate to 2.65 percent, assuming that the United States Federal...
BOJ monetary policy: Assessing future bias
Mar 16, 2017 08:50 am UTC| Commentary Economy 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...
FOMC monetary policy March 2017: Assessing future bias
Mar 16, 2017 08:03 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
As expected, the policymakers at FOMC increased federal funds rate by 25 basis points yesterday. There were only minor changes in FOMC projections compared to the December material. The forecast for long-term unemployment...
Another no action meeting likely from SNB
Mar 16, 2017 07:02 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Swiss National Bank (SNB) will announce interest rates at 8:30 GMT today and it is highly likely that the central bank would not follow actions of its other developed market counterparts such as the Fed, the ECB or the BoJ...
FxWirePro: The Day Ahead- 16th March 2017
Mar 16, 2017 05:22 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Lots of economic dockets and events scheduled for today and some with high volatility risks associated. Data released so far: Australia: Consumer inflation expectation marginally declines to 4 percent in March...
FxWirePro: Swedish Krona to appreciate but in snail’s pace – Do EUR/SEK bears need "covered put"?
Mar 15, 2017 11:51 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis
Sell a put against existing cash short in EURSEK. Stay short NZDSEK in options The structural case for SEK appreciation remains intact the real effective exchange rate is 10-11% below its long term average despite an...
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