Singaporean dollar likely to remain vulnerable amidst soaring U.S. inflation expectations
Nov 24, 2016 07:00 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
Singapores CPI-All Items inflation accelerated from -0.2 percent in September to -0.1 percent year-on-year in October. In the meantime, the core inflation, which strips the costs of accommodation and private road transport...
U.S. Fed’s November meeting minutes confirm rate hikes coming soon, says TD Economics
Nov 24, 2016 06:20 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
The FOMCs November meetings minutes showed that most of the participants saw that the U.S. economic outlook was rebounding and that inflation is moving towards the central banks target rate of 2 percent. The minutes noted...
FxWirePro: What all could USD/TRY ATM delta calls do amid Turkish political and CBRT’s intrusion?
Nov 23, 2016 13:40 pm UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis
With the deterioration in the local Turkish political situation and a less supportive environment from higher G3 yields, the outlook for the lira is worsening, in our view. While the CBRT could conduct FX sale auctions...
Nov 23, 2016 13:14 pm UTC| Technicals Central Banks Insights & Views
The Turkish lira weakened sharply in the recent times, with USDTRY surpassing 3.05 range and then to hit fresh highs of 3.4083 levels. Bulls manage to break out above long lasting range and stiff resistance of 3.07 with...
No major market volatility likely on FOMC minutes
Nov 23, 2016 13:01 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
FOMC will release its minutes of meeting at 19:00 GMT. However, this time around no major volatility in the financial markets is likely surrounding the release. The reasons for that are the following, First of all,...
Diverging Fed and ECB monetary policies likely to keep EUR/USD subdued
Nov 23, 2016 12:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
The European Central Bank (ECB) will decide on December 8 on whether and how to extend its 80 billion euros ($85 billion) monthly bond purchases and expectations are for the programme to continue beyond its current March...
Global central bankers face lose-lose situation
Nov 23, 2016 11:37 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
It is not really a good time to be a central banker. At one hand, they face political backlash over lower interest rates that so far failed to achieve inflation as well as spark growth, on the other hand, theyface...
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