Philippines’ headline inflation accelerates in June on rise in food prices
Jul 05, 2016 05:16 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
The Philippines annual headline inflation continued to accelerate in June, consistent with consensus expectation. The annual headline inflation quickened to 1.9 percent, the most rapid pace in more than one year, helped by...
In a world of low rates, what else can the RBA and central banks do?
Jul 05, 2016 01:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
The world still needs the central banks to bail us out of trouble but the impact of monetary policy is complicated in a world of zero or near-zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) and negative interest-rate policy...
Will Bank of England announce its move next week?
Jul 04, 2016 14:28 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Bank of England meets on July 14 to decide policy measures and investors are debating over whether the central bank will ease policy or wait until August Quarterly Inflation Report, when new post-Brexit forecasts will be...
Jul 04, 2016 13:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
One might be forgiven for wondering whats going on with BRL. Despite Brexit and the initial wave of risk aversion BRL illustrates the best performance in the entire EM universe since the end of June, up more than 3.5%...
Jul 04, 2016 11:38 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
Post Brexit vote, the outlook for Brazils exports for next year has dropped slightly, along with its implications for commodity prices. Brazils domestic demand continues to be in a bad shape; however, the consumption...
Reasons galore that make RBA’s easing look essential
Jul 04, 2016 09:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
We reckon the monetary policy divergence should be the major factor in the H2 of the year for a lower AUDUSD in thelong run and interim upswings in theshort run as the todays RBA cash rates likely to remain unchanged,...
Jul 04, 2016 08:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
After UK decides to exit from EU, euros vulnerability against majors still looks intact, euro against dollar and yen has just shown a negligible recovery from the recent lows, but the commodity currencies, such as CAD and...
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