Poland's monetary policy to be impacted by the personnel changes in MPC next year
Dec 03, 2015 10:27 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Poland would see personnel changes in its Monetary Policy Committee next year. This might not automatically lead to cuts in the interest rates, but the risk of one rate prevails in February or March in 2016, which is...
Fed's speed of future rate hikes to depend on price level
Dec 03, 2015 09:46 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Fed Chair Janet Yellen will express her view on the US economic outlook before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Analysts are expecting a careful decision from the Feda and very slow pace in further rate...
BoC should take the RBA’s "chill out" approach?
Dec 03, 2015 09:16 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Bank of Canada is likely in a position to sit back over Christmas, and follow RBA Stevens chill out notion. As it mentioned in its rate meeting, interest rate front doesnt need action, exports to US are better, there is no...
Riksbank seems relaxed even if SEK appreciates moderately after ECB's rate decision
Dec 03, 2015 09:05 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Riksbanks Executive Board sound much more relaxed about a moderate appreciation of the krona, believing that ECB would take further accomodative action, thus signalling to the market that EUR-SEK might well move notably...
South Korean economy better despite slowing China and MERS
Dec 03, 2015 09:03 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
GDP figure for third quarter, released by Bank of Korea (BOK) showed that economy didmuch better in the third quarter than originally anticipated. Korean economy faced heavy headwinds from slowdown in exports to China and...
ECB likely to expand asset purchases beyond September 2016
Dec 03, 2015 08:34 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Headline inflation gave a downward surprise and stayed at 0.1% y/y in November. The inflation rate for services in euro area fell to 1.1% inNovember in compare to 1.3% in previous month. Similarly, core inflation declined...
Brazil Copom minutes to throw light on divided rate decision
Dec 03, 2015 07:36 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Brazil Central Banks decision to leave the SELIC rate stable at 14.25% in recent Copom meeting was as predicted. This decision was not unanimous however, with six members voted for it and two voted against it and were in...
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