Foreign Exchange Insights and Next Week
Is a Revival of U.S. Currency Market Intervention Coming?
January 26, 2017
I suspect it is. Foreign exchange intervention used to be a key tool of monetary policy, wherein countries buy or sell their own currency in the marketplace against a different widely traded currency. As such, FX operations are like the open market operations used to guide banking reserves and domestic monetary policy, but there’s a […] More
Central Bank Watch
National Bank of Ukraine
January 26, 2017
The Ukrainian central bank interest rate was left unchanged at 14%. The same action was taken at the prior policy meeting in early December. A sharp decline of CPI inflation from 43.3% in 2015 to 12.4% last year had enabled officials to lower the interest rate from 30% in at the start of August 2015 […] More
New Overnight Developments Abroad - Daily Update
Dollar Bounces Higher
January 26, 2017
The dollar recovered 0.8% overnight against the yen and and is up 0.4% relative to the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars. The greenback rose 0.2% versus the euro but slipped 0.2% against the Swissie. The yuan is unchanged, and the Mexican peso rebounded 0.3% as President Nieto said his country will not pay for […] More
