Central Bank Watch
Interest Rate Hike in Sweden and South Africa
November 24, 2022
The Swedish Riksbank’s repo rate was increased today by 75 basis points to 2.5%, and another increase early in 2023 is also anticipated. Even before the pandemic’s onset, Riksbank officials had experimented with a negative interest rate of as much as -0.50% until a pair of 25-basis point hikes in December 2018 and December 2019. […] More
Central Bank Watch
Central Bank of Turkey Takes One More Rate Cut for the Road
November 24, 2022
The curious case of monetary policy at the Central Bank of Turkey moved further down the rabbit hole today with a 150-basis point additional drop in the policy rate to 9.0%. That’s ten percentage points below the 19% level that prevailed from March 2021 until September 2o21. This easing has been juxtaposed against accelerating inflation, […] More
New Overnight Developments Abroad - Daily Update
Several Central Bank Policy Meetings Elsewhere on This U.S. Thanksgiving Day
November 24, 2022
With the U.S. observing its quintessentially most unique holiday, the dollar continued to back off from recent highs, dropping 0.3% on a weighted DXY basis overnight and extending its cumulative decline from peak to 7.8%. The dollar lost 0.9% against the yen today and 0.6% versus sterling but just 0.1% relative to the euro. Prices […] More
