Central Bank Watch
Filipino Central Bank Interest Rates Unchanged
March 23, 2017
At the second meeting of the monetary board of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, all policy settings including the 3.0% reverse repo rate were kept unchanged. A released statement calls inflation manageable while conceding that price risks are skewed somewhat to the upside. Inflation has picked up in the first couple of months of 2017 due […] More
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Wait and See Market Mood
March 23, 2017
After stocks sold off earlier this week, there’s been a pause this Thursday, as investors await the U.S. House of Representatives vote on the Republican Insurance Policy and the scheduled public comments of Fed Chair Yellen and Minneapolis Fed District President Kashkari, who dissented from this month’s federal funds rate hike. Wednesday’s terrorist act in London […] More