National Bank of Poland likely on hold in Feb, stronger GDP growth along with accelerating inflation could strengthen hawks

Feb 03, 2017 12:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks

National Bank of Poland (NBH) is meeting next week to decide monetary policy and markets expect the event to be largely uneventful. The NBH held rates at its January meet and also flagged a continuance of non-conventional...

Bank of Russia keeps key rate unchanged, expects inflation to decelerate to 4 pct by end-2017

Feb 03, 2017 12:24 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

As widely expected, the Bank of Russia today decided to maintain the key interest rate 10 percent. The central banks board of directors indicates that inflation has been performing consistent with the forecast and that...

FxWirePro: Many driving forces to uphold shorts in USD/ARS via FX derivatives

Feb 03, 2017 11:57 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views

We encourage holding longs in ARS, short USDARS. The peso is currently trading a bit cheap to coincidental risk metrics (refer above chart), helped by soy prices, the positive real rate enforced by the Central Bank to...

RBNZ Preview: Likely to maintain OCR at 1.75 pct as inflation returns to target band for first time in two years

Feb 03, 2017 08:27 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is expected to maintain its overnight cash rate (OCR) at 2017s first monetary policy meeting scheduled to be held on February 9, following arecovery in the countrys inflation, which...

FxWirePro: After US polls, Trump’s inaugural and FOMC, what could drive USD vols?

Feb 03, 2017 07:29 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks

Softer vols may prove a momentary soft patch as the Dow Jones broke the symbolic threshold of 20000 last week, bears resume again claw back to 19885 during earlier European session, tripling in nominal value since the lows...

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PBoC hikes short-term market interest rates, may adopt flexible interest rate regime in 2017

Feb 03, 2017 07:25 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The Peoples Bank of China raised short-term market interest rates today. It repriced the short-term funding costs by hiking the 7-day reverse repo rate by 10 basis points from 2.25 percent to 2.35 percent. This move by the...

Czech National Bank keeps policy rate unchanged, revises up inflation forecast

Feb 03, 2017 06:47 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks

The Czech National Bank (CNB) left policy rates unchanged and maintained the EUR/CZK floor at 27 in a unanimous decision at its monetary policy meeting on February 2. The CNB reiterated its plan to exit from the EUR/CZK...