Foreign Exchange Insights and Next Week
Next Week
October 24, 2014
Central bank policy meetings are scheduled in the United States, Japan, Sweden, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Hungary and Israel. The Bank of Japan publishes its quarterly outlook on economic activity and prices on Friday, and the FOMC meeting is not one of those to be followed by a press conference. European clocks are […] More
Deeper Analysis
A Third of a Century of U.S. Disinflation
October 24, 2014
After accelerating from 7.0% per annum during the three years to end-1978 to 11.0% during the three years to end-1981, core consumer price inflation slowed to 4.7% per year between end-1981 and end-1984, 4.1% in 1985-87, 4.7% in 1988-90, 3.6% in 1991-3, 2.8% in 1994-96, 2.2% in 1997-1999, 2.4% in 2000-02, 1.8% in 2003-05, 2.3% […] More
New Overnight Developments Abroad - Daily Update
Ebolamania
October 24, 2014
On an otherwise quiet Friday from a data release standpoint, investors will be monitoring any news regarding the confirmed case of Ebola in New York City. Other areas of interest are Sunday’s ECB report on how banks did on the latest stress test and next week’s FOMC meeting. No press conference is scheduled after the […] More
