Central Bank Watch
Swedish Riksbank
December 20, 2017
Sweden’s repo rate will stay at negative 0.50% after a unanimous vote of the central bank executive board. It was zero percent from October 2014 until a 10-basis point cut in February 2015 pushed policy into negative interest rate territory. Three more cuts over the ensuing year depressed the repo rate to -0.5% in February […] More
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Bank of Thailand
December 20, 2017
By unanimous vote, the one-day repo rate was left at 1.50%, which has been its level since back-to-back 25-basis point cuts in March and April of 2015. Thailand’s monetary policy committee members are in no hurry to start raising interest rates even though projected GDP growth was revised up 0.1 percentage point to 3.9% this […] More
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Central Bank of Hungary
December 20, 2017
The central bank’s monetary council again kept the Hungarian base rate at 0.90%, its level since a 15-basis point reduction in May of last year. Inflation still hasn’t risen in a sustained manner to the central bank target, and officials do not expect that happening until the middle of 2019. The post-policy review statement asserts, […] More
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Rise in Sovereign Debt Yields Extended
December 20, 2017
The Senate approved the tax bill without any support from the Democrats by a vote of 51-48. All that remains is one final assured vote today in the House of Representatives and President Trump’s signature on the bill. This legislation is projected to boost economic growth in 2018 but also will raise federal deficit spending […] More
