Bank of Japan unlikely to ease, but to keep dovish stance
Jan 25, 2016 11:04 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
The Bank of Japan is expected to make no changes to monetary policy at its meeting on Friday and is likely to maintain its commitment to raising the monetary base by 80tn on an annual basis until its 2% price stability...
Renminbi series – Expect large size easing from PBoC
Jan 25, 2016 08:13 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) has been easing monetary policy since late 2014 mainly using reserve requirement reduction and reduction in policy rates. It has also announced other policy measures such as LTV ratio to ease...
BOJ to keep policy unchanged, slight dovish tone possible
Jan 25, 2016 02:56 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Bank of Japan meets this. As the BOJ just made modifications to the composition of asset purchases in December2015 and needs some time to review the effects, further policy actions are not expected to be taken at this...
Draghi gives direct signal for March easing
Jan 24, 2016 21:56 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
ECB president Mario Draghi gave clear cut hint for March easing and stands pat for the statement that ECB is ready to act any time soon. According to his dovish message, ECB will possibly reconsider the policy stance at...
Higher oil prices, strong housing bolster central banks' stimulus hopes
Jan 22, 2016 18:05 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Markets around the world surged onthe speculation that central banks will increase stimulus in reaction to the recent tumultuous financial markets. Particularly European markets improved significantly off word that ECB...
Euro area inflation bounce unlikely to prevent further stimulus
Jan 22, 2016 17:37 pm UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
The initial reading for January euro area annual inflation is forecast to see a second successive monthly rise. While oil prices fell in January, they dropped by even more at the same point last year. That should allow the...
FOMC to stand pat and is unlikely to send a strong signal of a March rate hike
Jan 22, 2016 17:33 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Against this background, the US central banks policy committee meets for the first time this year (Wed). As it is only a few weeks since the Fed hiked interest rates, a policy change at this meeting has always been very...
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