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...
RBI keeps policy rate unchanged with an objective to achieve 4 pct inflation in medium-term
Dec 07, 2016 09:22 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the benchmark repo rate unchanged at the two-day bi-monthly policy decision, concluded Wednesday, based on an overall assessment of the macroeconomic conditions, with an objective of...
RBA monetary policy: Assessing future bias
Dec 06, 2016 07:54 am UTC| Commentary Economy
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chose to keep the interest rate steady at 1.5 percent. Lets look at the details of policy announcement to assess the bias of RBA. Key highlights: RBA notes that global economy is...
RBA leaves policy rate on hold, likely to maintain neutral stance through H1 2017
Dec 06, 2016 05:48 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
The Reserve Bank of Australia left its key policy rate unchanged for the fourth month in a row at the monetary policy meeting held Tuesday, following persistently low rates of inflation, which is likely to lead to further...
Dec 05, 2016 09:39 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), led by Governor Urijit Patel, is expected to slash the benchmark repo rate at the two-day bi-monthly monetary policy meeting scheduled to be held on December 7, following the ongoing...
Central Bank of Bahrain considers fintech regulations
Dec 05, 2016 06:26 am UTC| Fintech Law
The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) is considering introducing regulations on fintech and startups that focus on fintech are invited to set up their offices in Bahrain and use it as a base to serve the entire GCC and...
ECB likely to maintain monthly QE purchases worth EUR80 billion in next week’s policy meeting
Dec 02, 2016 11:09 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
The European Central Bank is expected to extend its QE purchases by six months to September 2017 and maintain the EUR80 billion monthly purchases in its monetary policy meeting scheduled next week. Lately there has been a...
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