Currency War Series

Norges Bank likely to cut rates in March

Feb 11, 2016 06:49 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The Norges Bank board, during its MPC-meeting in December, had hinted that they were mostly likely to lower rates in March rather than keep them unchanged. The Norges Bank was earlier expected to keep rates on hold in...

Fed Hike Aftermath Series

US Fed still likely to resume hiking rates in 2016

Feb 11, 2016 05:03 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in her semi-annual testimony stated that the central bank still intends to hike rates slowly. However, she said that the persistent volatility in the market might delay the Feds plans...

Currency War Series

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas likely to raise policy rate in 2H16

Feb 11, 2016 03:03 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is not in a rush to tweak its monetary policy, especially with the imminent implementation of the new rate corridor. There has been some chatter about the BSP introducing new...

Currency War Series

Emerging Market Crisis Series

Upside risks for additional tightening from BCB

Feb 10, 2016 15:57 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Brazil inflation is highly unlikely to converge on BCB target in 2017 unless we see sharp BRL appreciation, which appears highly unlikely. January inflation data came in at 10.71% y/y as against Decembers 10.67% y/y, above...

Inflation data unlikely to influence Norges Bank's March rate path

Feb 10, 2016 15:42 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Norway January core inflation came in at 3.0 %y/y inline with Norges Bank forecast and consensus. Headline inflation increased to 3% from 2.3% last month. Data is unlikely to influence Norges Banks March rate path. Norges...

Currency War Series

Banxico unlikely to respond with immediate policy change over the coming months

Feb 10, 2016 15:07 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Data released on Tuesday showed that Mexicos CPI print for January came in at 2.61% y/y, slightly above expectations of 2.52%. The peso however was unable to benefit from the data and continued to trade at record lows...

How the new Poland's MPC will approach monetary policy?

Feb 10, 2016 14:40 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Polands new MPC is gradually being sworn in. Yesterday, Lower House nominees Grazyna Ancyparowicz and Eryk Lon were sworn in, President Andrzej Duda will nominate his two positions by 19 February. Remarks by most new...