ECB policy meeting preview

Sep 03, 2015 11:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks

Today European Central Bank (ECB) is to provide further guidance in policy meet. Result to be announced at 11:45 GMT, followed by press conference at 12:30 GMT. Meeting is to be held in Frankfurt. Current policy...

Sweden's Riksbank might cut in December?

Sep 03, 2015 09:27 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The Riksbank made a significant reduction to the inflation forecast in particular (down 0.4 percentage points at most) and small adjustments to the macro forecast in general. However, there is still a margin to our own...

ECB's likelihood measures to improve euro area financial conditions

Sep 03, 2015 08:47 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

As the financial and monetary condition of euroarea are deteriorated, more measures are likely to be deployed by ECB before year-end. Barclays notes, ECB states in the last press conference: If any factors were to lead to...

COPOM to continue being on hold for a 'prolonged' period

Sep 03, 2015 03:30 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The Copom continues to believe that keeping the Selic rate at this level (14.25%) for a sufficiently prolonged period is necessary to converge inflation to the mid-point of the target. The recent developments in China...

COPOM : Currency selloff not significant enough to keep hiking

Sep 03, 2015 02:00 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Today, the Copom decided to keep the Selic rate at 14.25%, pausing the hiking cycle that it resumed in October 2014 in a unanimous decision, as consensus expected. In the post-decision statement, the board kept the same...

ECB to hold meeting tonight

Sep 02, 2015 21:50 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The ECB meets tonight after an eventful summer with turmoil in EM, collapsing inflation expectations and continued uncertainty in Greece. Last week, Praet warned that developments in the world economy and in commodity...

National Bank of Poland meeting a non event

Sep 02, 2015 06:56 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Todays Poland MPC meeting will be a non-event as far as market participants are concerned. NBP already stated that they are at the end of their rate cutting cycle, so the main focus will be upon if and when rates are...