BoJ Deputy Governor Iwata holds emphasis on money printing, exposes rifts between board members
Dec 07, 2016 16:52 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata, supporter of aggressive money printing in the nine-member board, shrugged off the view the BOJ was now putting less emphasis on pumping money. Iwata stressed that the BOJ will...
Poland leads broad-based gains in CEE assets, focus turns to ECB
Dec 07, 2016 15:44 pm UTC| Commentary Economy
Central European markets tracked gains in Polish assets which were buoyed by an unexpected rating outlook upgrade by Standard Poors on Friday. Polish assets, which have generally underperformed their regional peers this...
Bank of Canada monetary policy preview
Dec 07, 2016 11:27 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
Today Bank of Canada (BoC) is to provide further guidance in policy meet. The result of the monetary policy meeting is scheduled to be announced at 15:00 GMT. Current policy measures BoC is maintaining overnight...
RBI keeps policy rate unchanged with an objective to achieve 4 pct inflation in medium-term
Dec 07, 2016 09:22 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the benchmark repo rate unchanged at the two-day bi-monthly policy decision, concluded Wednesday, based on an overall assessment of the macroeconomic conditions, with an objective of...
RBA monetary policy: Assessing future bias
Dec 06, 2016 07:54 am UTC| Commentary Economy
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chose to keep the interest rate steady at 1.5 percent. Lets look at the details of policy announcement to assess the bias of RBA. Key highlights: RBA notes that global economy is...
RBA leaves policy rate on hold, likely to maintain neutral stance through H1 2017
Dec 06, 2016 05:48 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
The Reserve Bank of Australia left its key policy rate unchanged for the fourth month in a row at the monetary policy meeting held Tuesday, following persistently low rates of inflation, which is likely to lead to further...
Dec 05, 2016 09:39 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), led by Governor Urijit Patel, is expected to slash the benchmark repo rate at the two-day bi-monthly monetary policy meeting scheduled to be held on December 7, following the ongoing...
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