What to expect from ECB ahead?
Dec 08, 2016 12:11 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Today, European Central Bank (ECB) is to provide further guidance in policy meeting. The result to be announced at 12:45 GMT, followed by apress conference at 13:30 GMT. Meeting is to be held in Frankfurt. Current...
National Bank of Poland springs no surprises, remains on hold as expected
Dec 08, 2016 10:44 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
The National Bank of Poland remained on hold, as per market expectations, throwing no surprise bursts at all. According to NBP Governor Glapinski, the current economic deceleration had been anticipated, but improved...
Dec 08, 2016 07:22 am UTC| Commentary
The Indian sovereign bonds have witnessed a heavy sell-off across the curve on Thursday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its last monetary policy meeting of 2016 unexpectedly kept its key interest rate...
JGBs trade narrowly mixed ahead of ECB, Fed monetary policy decisions
Dec 08, 2016 07:11 am UTC| Commentary
The Japanese government bonds traded narrowly mixed Thursday as investors await the two of the worlds largest central banks monetary policy decisions. The benchmark 10-year bond yield, which moves inversely to its...
BoJ Deputy Governor Iwata holds emphasis on money printing, exposes rifts between board members
Dec 07, 2016 16:52 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata, supporter of aggressive money printing in the nine-member board, shrugged off the view the BOJ was now putting less emphasis on pumping money. Iwata stressed that the BOJ will...
Poland leads broad-based gains in CEE assets, focus turns to ECB
Dec 07, 2016 15:44 pm UTC| Commentary Economy
Central European markets tracked gains in Polish assets which were buoyed by an unexpected rating outlook upgrade by Standard Poors on Friday. Polish assets, which have generally underperformed their regional peers this...
Bank of Canada monetary policy preview
Dec 07, 2016 11:27 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
Today Bank of Canada (BoC) is to provide further guidance in policy meet. The result of the monetary policy meeting is scheduled to be announced at 15:00 GMT. Current policy measures BoC is maintaining overnight...
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