Despite recovery in oil price Moody’s warns on Saudi banks

Jul 05, 2016 08:01 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy

The oil price has recovered more than 90 percent from their bottom in February but one of the top three rating agencies Moodys has warned of the liquidity pressure in Saudi Arabias banks. The squeeze is likely to take its...

RBA keeps cash rate on hold; strong likelihood of easing in August

Jul 05, 2016 07:36 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

During its meeting on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australias Board decided to keep the cash rate on hold at 1.75 percent, as widely anticipated by markets. The central bank also introduced a soft easing bias in its...

RBA monetary policy: Assessing future bias

Jul 05, 2016 07:36 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) maintained its monetary policy stance at todays meeting and kept interest rates steady at 1.75%. Lets look at the details of policy announcement to assess the bias of RBA. Key...

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...

Currency War Series

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...

Currency War Series

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...

FxWirePro: Surge in BRL surprises EM FX space, BCB “not jumping guns”, inflation to drive next roadmap for Latam currency

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%...