Oct 28, 2015 13:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
Today Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) will announce after meeting monetary policy decisions at 20:00 GMT. Economic condition New Zealands economy overall remained robust throughout past years however started...
Big communication task for FOMC today
Oct 28, 2015 11:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has big tasks in their hand today to communicate the market well enough about their current stance and plan of action ahead. With no press conference scheduled for later, it is no...
Japan's industrial production to offer cues on BOJ stimulus
Oct 28, 2015 11:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Economy
Japans industrial production data is due for release on Oct 29, Thursday, a day before BOJ policy meeting, at which the c.bank mulls further stimulus. The production data is of great significance as a gauge on whether the...
Markets price-in 90% probability of RBA rate cut next week
Oct 28, 2015 10:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
Todays weaker than expected inflation numbers has led to skyrocketing expectation of a rate cut by Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) next week, when the bank is set to meet to announce decision on November 3rd. In...
Riksbank fires another round of QE bullet, Krona still strong
Oct 28, 2015 09:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
Swedens Riksbankhas kept the interest rates steady, while firing another round of quantitative easing. Interest rate was kept at -0.35%, while increasing its asset purchase program by SEK 65 billion. Citing...
Riksbank likely to demonstrate readiness
Oct 28, 2015 08:52 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Things were going quite well for the Riksbank. It seems to have convinced the markets that it will prevent an (excessive) appreciation of the SEK, which is why EUR-SEK has not traded notably below 9.20 since March....
Does FOMC want to reaffirm a December liftoff?
Oct 28, 2015 06:16 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
The FOMC would keep the economic assessment broadly unchanged and avoid references to the recent soft patch in the data. It could remove the reference to monitoring developments abroad following the assessment that the...
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