Foreign Exchange Insights and Next Week
Next Week
June 15, 2018
Central Banks: Monetary policy reviews in the U.K., Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, The Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, Norway and Hungary. Release of Bank of Japan minutes. Fed officials speaking publicly include Powell, Bullard, Dudley, Bostic, and Williams. Other central bankers speaking in public include Draghi, Praet, Lautenschlaeger and Coeure of the ECB, Governor Kuroda of the BOJ […] More
Central Bank Watch
Bank of Japan Leaves Policy Unchanged, Downgrades Inflation Outlook
June 15, 2018
Following four hours six minutes of discussion on Thursday and Friday, the Bank of Japan Board voted 8-1 to maintain its policy of quantitative and qualitative monetary easing with yield curve control. The key elements of this stance are A negative 0.1% short-term policy interest rate target. A target of around zero percent on the […] More
Central Bank Watch
Bank of Russia Retains 7.25% Main Interest Rate
June 15, 2018
Russian monetary easing is on pause. The rate had been last cut by 25 basis points in both February and March and before that by a full percentage point during March-June of 2017 and 125 basis points during the final quarter of last year. But after leaving the one-week repo rate at 7.25% following this […] More
New Overnight Developments Abroad - Daily Update
More Trouble
June 15, 2018
President Trump has approved a 25% tariff on $50 billion of Chinese imports. The Bank of Japan gave a gloomier assessment of inflation, downgrading its range to 0.5-1.0% from around 1.0% and observing that medium-term and long-term inflation expectations aren’t escaping a deflationary mindset. Policy settings were left unchanged, and an extremely accommodative stance seemingly […] More
