SNB policy action today: fireworks unlikely

Mar 17, 2016 06:26 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Swiss National Bank will announce its monetary policy decisions at 8:30 GMT today. Economic conditions Switzerland GDP is around $ 701 billion however growth rate has sharply slowed down. As of latest quarterly...

BoE’s MPC likely to vote unanimously to keep policy unchanged

Mar 16, 2016 12:32 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

BoEs recent Inflation Report meeting had given the key opportunity every quarter to update its macro forecasts and also its policy message. This was a very dovish message. The projections are conditioned on the market OIS...

Central Bank of Chile likely to keep rates unchanged on deteriorating growth outlook

Mar 16, 2016 12:07 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Chiles central bank, in recent months, had adopted a wait-and-see strategy after its hawkish moves in Q4 2015. However, the recent statements by BCCh have been dovish, reflecting deteriorating domestic and global growth...

Poland revises inflation rate for January and February, NBP to eventually cut rates in 2016

Mar 16, 2016 10:45 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Polands Stat Office has published new inflation data for the first two months of 2016 as it revised its weights for the CPI basket. Using the new weights, Januarys inflation data was downwardly revised to -0.9% from -0.7%....

Utilities to benefit biggest from ECB corporate bond purchase

Mar 16, 2016 10:23 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Last week, European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi delivered a comprehensive easing package, which includes buying of corporate bonds. Our analysis of the eligible QE universe showed, while it would be...

What to watch out from FOMC ahead?

Mar 16, 2016 08:12 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

We expect a great deal of debate among FOMC policymakers over the path of hike. Last time when the committee met, it was back in January, time of weaker economic dockets, lower oil price and massive volatility in financial...

BOJ offers to buy 1.27 tln yen JGBs with residual maturities outright from 3/18

Mar 16, 2016 01:11 am UTC| Central Banks

BOJ offers to buy 400 bln yen JGBs (Residual maturity of 1YR to 3YR) outright from 3/18 BOJ offers to buy 420 bln yen JGBs (Residual maturity of 3YR to 5YR) outright from 3/18 BOJ offers to buy 450 bln yen JGBs...