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BOE voted 9-0 to Stay Status Quo, Sterling Rallied as Jobless Claims Reduced Unexpectedly
Action Insight | Mar 17 10 12:12 GMT
The BOE minutes unveiled that MPC members voted unanimously on March 4 to keep the policy rate unchanged at 0.5% and to maintain the asset purchase program at 200B pound. While growth outlook remained...
Central Banks BOE
Bank of Japan Expands QE Modestly
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 17 10 11:17 GMT
While today's easing move by BoJ was only a small move, it underlines that, unlike most other countries, Japan is far from starting to exit is non-conventional easing measures and might even ease furt...
Central Banks BOJ
BOJ Doubled Funding Operations. Dissenting Votes Increased Uncertainty on Future Easing
Action Insight | Mar 17 10 07:14 GMT
Under the pressure from the government and dismal inflation outlook, the Bank of Japan announced to double the size of the fixed-rate funds-supplying operation against pooled collateral (the fixed-rat...
Central Banks BOJ
Dovish FOMC Statement Contains Few Surprises
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 17 10 06:20 GMT
The money and fixed income market reacted on the more dovish statement as one would expect. Expectations for higher Interest rate, which had increased ahead of the meeting, were priced out. In the T-N...
Central Banks Fed
FOMC Retained The 'Extended Period' Language. Hoeing The Only Dissenter
Action Insight | Mar 17 10 03:55 GMT
As we and the market anticipated, the FOMC left its policy rate unchanged at 0-0.25% and retained the pledge to keep interest rates at current low level for an 'extended period'. Economic assessment c...
Central Banks Fed
FOMC: Less Dovish, but Hikes Remain Distant
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 16 10 20:55 GMT
The assessment of activity was slightly more upbeat than in the previous statement. As expected the FOMC turned more optimistic on the labour market while on the other hand noting recent very weak hou...
Central Banks Fed
FOMC Stays the Course
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 16 10 20:47 GMT
As was widely expected by us (and to a lesser extent by the markets) the Fed kept the wording and tone of its interest rate decision statement largely unchanged, and maintained its commitment to keepi...
Central Banks Fed
FOMC Dovish as Expected - Now for the Reaction
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 16 10 20:44 GMT
The two critical phrases in the FOMC statement, about keeping rates "exceptionally low" for a "critical period" were kept in the statement, and this conformed with consensus expectations for little ch...
Central Banks Fed
U.S. Fed Makes Only Minor Changes to its Characterization of the Economy
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 16 10 20:41 GMT
The statement issued by the Fed at the conclusion of today’s policy-setting FOMC meeting was very much in line with expectations and flags no imminent shift in policy. It suggested a very modest upgra...
Central Banks Fed
BOJ May Ease Policy Wednesday
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 16 10 19:09 GMT
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will complete a two day policy meeting on March 17th. The BOJ has been under significant pressure from the Japanese government to take action to combat deflation and boost the ...
Central Banks BOJ
FOMC Maintains "Extended Period" Language on Ultra-Low Rates
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 16 10 19:04 GMT
The Fed kept its language regarding keeping interest rates at their low levels for an "extended period" of time. That means rates should remain at their current levels for at least 6 months. Economic ...
Central Banks Fed
BOJ to Extend and Expand QE
Action Insight | Mar 16 10 11:25 GMT
The Bank of Japan will likely extend the duration and expand the size of the new lending facility (launched in December) so as to fight against deflation. This is likely the only change the central ba...
Central Banks BOJ
Flash Comment: FOMC Preview
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 16 10 08:01 GMT
We see increasing signs of a self-sustained recovery with relatively solid progress in consumer spending and more developed indications of an imminent turnaround in the labour market. Still, recent si...
Central Banks Fed
FOMC Expected to Hold Policy Steady Tuesday
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 15 10 18:53 GMT
The FOMC will hold a one-day policy meeting on Tuesday, March 16th. This will be the first scheduled single day policy meeting for the Federal Reserve since the start of the financial crisis in Septem...
Central Banks Fed
Will the Fed Retain the 'Extended Period' Wordings?
Action Insight | Mar 15 10 12:42 GMT
At the March FOMC meeting, the Fed will leave the policy rate unchanged at 0-0.25%. With economic development being largely consistent with expectations since January's meeting, the central bank will ...
Central Banks Fed
CHF: SNB Maintains Its Loose Monetary Policy - For Now
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 12 10 14:50 GMT
As widely expected the Swiss National Bank (SNB) held its target for the three-month Libor unchanged at 0.00-0.75% and reiterated its intention to keep it within the lower end of the range - i.e. arou...
Central Banks SNB
SNB Revised Up Growth and Inflation Forecasts While Leaving Monetary Policy Unchanged
Action Insight | Mar 11 10 14:33 GMT
As expected, the SNB left the 3-month LIBOR target range unchanged at 0.00-0.75% and intended to keep the lower part of the target range at around 0.25%. The SNB also reiterated the stance to act 'dec...
Central Banks SNB
RBNZ Retained Monetary Stance, Raised Growth Outlook But Remained Cautious
Action Insight | Mar 11 10 03:20 GMT
As we and the market expected, the RBNZ left the OCR unchanged at 2.5% and reiterated the stance to 'removing policy stimulus around the middle of 2010'. The quarterly MPS also revealed modest upgrade...
Central Banks RBNZ
SNB to turn More Hawkish in Monetary Policy
Action Insight | Mar 10 10 07:37 GMT
Despite recent positive economic data, the SNB will continue to leave the target range for 3-month LIBOR at 0-0.75, targeting to keep the rate at 0.25%, in March. The Monetary Policy Announcement will...
Central Banks SNB
RBNZ to Hold Monetary Policy Unchanged. Focus on the Quarterly MPS
Action Insight | Mar 08 10 18:38 GMT
The RBNZ will likely leave the OCR at 2.5%, for the 11th month, at the March meeting. Therefore, the market will focus on the Monetary Policy Statement as well as how the central bank describe economi...
Central Banks RBNZ
ECB Continues On A Slow And Steady Path
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 05 10 04:48 GMT
Primed by comments from ECB president Jean Claude Trichet that this month's ECB Governing Council meeting would be 'an important rendezvous', markets awaited today's press conference with greater than...
Central Banks ECB
ECB Holds Rates Steady, But Makes Moves to Tighten Monetary Policy
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 04 10 16:55 GMT
The ECB is in the middle of a tough balancing act as it is attempting to lay the groundwork for mopping up extra liquidity in the banking system while still maintaining favorable lending conditions an...
Central Banks ECB
ECB Meeting: A Slow Normalisation
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 04 10 16:41 GMT
The 3-month auctions will be with fixed allotment from now on. The ECB's weekly main refinancing operations and the one-month auctions will continue to be with full allotment at least until 12 October...
Central Banks ECB
ECB Press Conference: No Mention Of You-Know-Who
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 04 10 15:25 GMT
The Governing Council decided to leave the key ECB interest rates unchanged. The Euro-system continues to provide liquidity support to the banking system of the euro area at very favorable conditions,...
Central Banks ECB
ECB Continued to Mop Up Excess Liquidity as Growth Outlook Improved
Action Insight | Mar 04 10 14:58 GMT
ECB's monetary decisions in March are broadly inline with expectations. The central bank left the main refinancing rate unchanged at 1% while fine-tuning the funding operation frameworks. The ECB staf...
Central Banks ECB
Bond Markets and Fed Rhetoric: Lessons from 2003-04
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 04 10 12:26 GMT
During Bernanke's semi-annual testimony to Congress, he reiterated that rates could remain low for an "extended period", thus signalling that the recent hike in the discount rate did not indicate that...
Central Banks Fed
Beige Book: Economic Conditions Improved Modestly
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 03 10 19:41 GMT
With data prepared and collected on or before February 22, The Fed’s Beige Book indicated that economic conditions have improved, but “in most cases, the increases were modest”. Of the 12 Federal Rese...
Central Banks Fed
ECB Meets to Discuss Phase Two of the Exit Policy
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 03 10 13:57 GMT
Last month's ECB press conference was largely uneventful and it surely was meant to be so. The ECB had “surprised” the markets in December by setting out its exit strategy and implementing initial mea...
Central Banks ECB
ECB Preview: Dovish
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 03 10 13:49 GMT
Since the last Governing Council meeting, macroeconomic data has been soft and concerns about Greece remain high on the agenda. The tiny GDP growth in Q4 09 brings forward concerns about whether the e...
Central Banks ECB
ECB to Drain Liquidity Gradually
Action Insight | Mar 03 10 07:25 GMT
The upcoming ECB meeting is the focus of the week as the President Trichet has mentioned several times that more detailed money market measures will be announced at the March meeting. Given the negati...
Central Banks ECB
BOE to Stay Sidelined as Inflation Remains Strong in the Near-term
Action Insight | Mar 03 10 07:22 GMT
The BOE is expected to continue its 'wait-and-see' stance in monetary policy. At Thursday's meeting, the central bank should unanimously vote for keeping the official Bank Rate paid on commercial bank...
Central Banks BOE
BoC: Interest Rates on Hold
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 02 10 14:35 GMT
As was widely expected, the Bank of Canada today has maintained its commitment to hold interest rates at their historically low levels until the end of the second quarter of 2010 and so left the overn...
Central Banks BOC
BOC Kept Policy Rate at 0.25% but Delivered More Hawkish Statement
Action Insight | Mar 02 10 14:24 GMT
As expected, the Bank of Canada left the overnight rate target at 0.25%. Moreover, the central bank reiterated 'conditional on the outlook for inflation, the target overnight rate can be expected to r...
Central Banks BOC
Bank of Canada -- Committed to Low Rates
Fundamental Analysis | Mar 02 10 14:16 GMT
The Bank of Canada left the overnight rate at 0.25% this morning and maintained its assessment of risks to the outlook as being balanced based on macro considerations. The Bank removed the statement a...
Central Banks BOC
RBA Raised Cash Rate to 4%, Resuming the Tightening Cycle
Action Insight | Mar 02 10 04:47 GMT
After pausing in February, the RBA resumed its tightening cycle in March by announcing to raise its cash rate by +25 bps to 4%. In the accompanying statement, the central bank stated that interest rat...
Central Banks RBA
BoC Monetary Policy Monitor: Set Housing Aside
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 27 10 13:56 GMT
There has been much to digest since the last Bank of Canada decision, though little to motivate a major change to the monetary policy outlook. Central bank speakers have filled the calendar like never...
Central Banks BOC
Unchanged Monetary Policy Stance Expected at BoC's Meeting
Action Insight | Feb 27 10 08:48 GMT
Both market expectations and economic development evolved recently point to an unchanged monetary policy stance at BoC's March meeting. The central bank will most likely announce to keep its policy ra...
Central Banks BOC
RBA to Pause for a Second Month
Action Insight | Feb 27 10 08:44 GMT
While RBA' tightening cycle , which began late last year, will continue in 2010, more rate hikes will be delivered in 2H10 as policymakers need to gauge how previous hikes feed through to the economy....
Central Banks RBA
Bernanke Reiterated The Low Rate Policy
Action Insight | Feb 25 10 03:11 GMT
The Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony was inline with market expectation. While the Chairman acknowledged improvement in economic condition, he noted the job market remains quite weak while inflat...
Central Banks Fed
Enter The Exit Strategy
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 19 10 17:55 GMT
The Fed's exit strategy has begun to capture the market's imagination over the past few weeks, and is starting to wrest away control of the bond market from simmering European fiscal woes. There have ...
Central Banks Fed
Fed Raises the Discount Rate: Return to Normalcy
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 19 10 16:38 GMT
For the Fed, the initial step in a return to normalcy is increasing the spread between the funds rate and the discount rate to reestablish the discount rate as a penalty rate. Moreover, we would expec...
Central Banks Fed
FOMC: Fed Normalizes Discount Rate Spread
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 19 10 09:21 GMT
Overnight the Federal Reserve Board announced an increase in the spread between the discount and the Fed funds rate spread from 25bp to 50bp effective from today. This leaves the discount rate at 0.75...
Central Banks Fed
FOMC Minutes Review: Slightly More Hawkish On Growth
Action Insight | Feb 18 10 03:22 GMT
In the minutes of the January FOMC meeting, the Fed showed slightly more hawkish tone on the economic outlook. It revised up its forecast on 2010 GDP growth to 2.8%-3.5% from 2.5% to 3.5% projected in...
Central Banks Fed
U.S. Fed Discusses Exit Strategies, Says Economy Strengthened
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 17 10 20:13 GMT
The minutes of the January 26-27 meeting suggested that most members saw recent economic data as indicating that conditions have improved with economic activity continuing to ‘strengthen’ and the labo...
Central Banks Fed
ECB Doesn't Dare Lift its Foot From the Gas-Pedal
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 15 10 13:27 GMT
The ECB is expected to deliver a first hike of the refinancing rate to 1.25% in November 2010. This is somewhat later than the hawkish August 2010 hike we had previously communicated. The implementati...
Central Banks ECB
A Roadmap for the Fed's Exit
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 12 10 08:13 GMT
This week a testimony by Chairman Bernanke to the House revealed the Fed has progressed further in its move towards the exit. During the crisis the Federal Reserve System implemented several alternati...
Central Banks Fed
Fed Chair Bernanke Outlines Framwork for Exit Strategy
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 10 10 17:28 GMT
In his published remarks today, Chairman Bernanke laid out some of the possible approaches the Fed could take to extricate the U.S. economy from the current significant monetary policy accommodation b...
Central Banks Fed
BOE Inflation Report: Downward Revision in Growth and Inflation Forecast, More Easing Highly Likely
Action Insight | Feb 10 10 12:18 GMT
At the February Inflation Report, the BOE unveiled downside risks to economic recovery. The MPC members believed that growth in the United Kingdom has been and will continue to be driven by the consid...
Central Banks BOE
SNB - An Information Vacuum
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 09 10 07:17 GMT
As of 1 January 2010, Philipp Hildebrand replaced Jean-Pierre Roth as chairman of the governing board at the Swiss National Bank (SNB). Not a major event, given that Hildebrand has expressed no indica...
Central Banks SNB
ECB Bides It's Time
Fundamental Analysis | Feb 04 10 17:22 GMT
As expected, today's ECB press conference was largely uneventful in terms of major market- moving developments. Both the ECB and financial markets approached it with the understanding that it would be...
Central Banks ECB
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