Jan 27, 2017 08:37 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The BoJs consumer inflation rose by 0.1 pct in December. This came in as expected but lower than Novembers 0.2 pct rise. The BOJ began publishing its own consumer price calculations in November 2015 to better understand...
Jan 27, 2017 07:55 am UTC| Economy Central Banks
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) surprised the market Friday by increasing its buying in 5-10 year bonds, trying to keep the 10-year JGB yields near zero. This move comes after the central bank unexpectedly skipped widely...
Jan 26, 2017 12:03 pm UTC| Economy Commentary Central Banks
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) is expected to hold its first monetary policy meeting for 2017 on Friday, February 3. The central bank is widely expected to maintain its interest rate at 10 percent as the countrys...
Jan 26, 2017 10:29 am UTC| Economy Commentary Central Banks
The Bank of England (BoE) is expected to hold its first monetary policy meeting for 2017 on Thursday, February 2. The central bank is widely expected to maintain its interest rate at a historic low of 0.25 percent amid...
Next week’s FOMC policy meet likely to set stage for March rate hike
Jan 26, 2017 09:06 am UTC| Economy Commentary Central Banks
The United States Bureau of Economic Analysis is expected to release its gross domestic product (GDP) for the last quarter of 2016 on Friday by 13:30 GMT. We foresee that if it comes in above 2 percent y/y, could set the...
Sniffing a Peg-break Series: Violent moves unlikely in EUR/CZK
Jan 26, 2017 08:39 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Czech National Bank (CNB) confirmed earlier this month that the central bank would abandon its almost four-year-old Euro-Koruna peg this year and sometime middle of the year. The date is yet to be chosen. Looking from the...
Jan 26, 2017 07:09 am UTC| Economy Central Banks Commentary
The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to maintain its monetary policy stance despite pressure from Germany to rollback quantitative easing. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in its latest speech called on...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects