Central bank of Turkey likely to hike overnight lending rate by 25bps
Dec 20, 2016 09:49 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
The central bank of Turkey (CBT) is expected to hike the overnight lending rate in the monetary policy meeting scheduled to be held today. Yesterdays assassination of the Russian ambassador highlights the laws of...
Dec 20, 2016 07:38 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The BoJ maintains status quo in its monetary policy, focusing to soothing 10Y Treasury bond yield,the benchmark for long-term borrowing costs, at around zero pct and keep the overnight interest rate around -0.1%. and asset...
FxWirePro: 1Y EUR vol remains core vega longs amid murky ECB decision on soft taper
Dec 20, 2016 07:30 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis
A reminder of ECBs primary objective highlights why, with credit demand and growth so low, ECB has extended its QE. Core inflation, despite the rebounding of headline CPI, is stagnating under 1%, rather than pushing...
Weaker yen revitalizes BoJ’s optimism
Dec 20, 2016 07:23 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Bank of Japan (BoJ), which was supposed to be the most wretched central bank of the year 2016, suddenly finds anew wave of optimism in the latest weakening of the Japanese yen. Since Donald Trumps victory in the US...
Dec 20, 2016 06:40 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis
The BoJ maintains status quo in its monetary policy, it seems that the central bank is focused soothing 10Y Treasury bond yield,the benchmark for long-term borrowing costs, at around zero pct and keep the overnight...
Taiwan central bank likely remain on hold to gauge impact of Fed’s hawkish policy stance
Dec 20, 2016 06:16 am UTC| Central Banks Economy
The central bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (CBC) is expected to keep its interest rate unchanged at the monetary policy meeting scheduled to be held on December 22, in a likely attempt to gauge the hawkish policy...
Dec 20, 2016 06:06 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
The Reserve Bank of Australias December board meeting minutes showed their series of worries and also underlined the positives in current conditions. The board was quite worried regarding the possible harm to global...
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