Markets agree on Fed hike next week, labor market key to understand tightening bias
Dec 10, 2015 11:32 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
FOMC meets next week, and it is now more than certain that the Fed will rates from near zero, with probabilities around 85%, which is as close as the market can price it ahead of the meeting. Attention now is moving away...
Dec 10, 2015 11:09 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Bank of England (BOE) is scheduled to announce its monetary policy at 12:00 GMT, will release minutes of meeting along with. Pound is heading higher ahead of monetary policy announcement and is best performing major...
RBA to stay put in H1 2016, as inflation expectations soar
Dec 10, 2015 10:54 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
To add to the headache of Reserve Bank of Australias (RBA) policymakers, who are trying to tame slowdown using loose monetary policy at one hand, facing real estate price hike and deteriorating terms of trade at the other,...
BoK's fiscal policy likely to remain proactive next year
Dec 10, 2015 10:39 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
BoK left its key policy rate steady at 1.5% today, consistent with the expectations. Korean government grew at 2.7% yoy in third quarter, rising from 2.2% in Q2. The economy accelerated to 1.3%qoq in Q3, against 0.3%...
Czech's central bank's year end inflation projection likely has little chance to materialise
Dec 10, 2015 10:32 am UTC| Commentary
Czech Republics November CPI dropped by 0.4% mom. The year on year rate dropped to 0.1%, a full 0.5 pp below the central banks projection for the month. While this moderation is led by sharp food and energy price...
RBNZ will again act, if kiwi appreciates further
Dec 10, 2015 10:06 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
RBNZ once again cut its key rate by 25bp to bring it to 2.5%, as indicated in the last rate meeting. This is primarily because of the NZD which rose again in the month of August. The central bank still wants to a weak...
Fed may again hike rate in March
Dec 10, 2015 09:35 am UTC| Commentary
The rising wage rate is warning that the inflationary pressure in the economy will be higher in near future. Therefore, contractionary monetary policy is anticipated from the Fed at 16th December meeting. This will be the...
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