Foreign Exchange Insights and Next Week
Next Week’s Menu: October 11 – 17, 2025
October 10, 2025
Central Banks: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will release it semi-annual Monetary Policy Statement on Tuesday. Unlike most other central banks that target an interest rate, MAS orients monetary policy by targeting the weighted value of its currency. Three variables are targeted: the width of a permitted trading band, the midpoint of that band, […] More
Central Bank Watch
Larger-than-Expected Interest Rate Hike by National Bank of Kazakhstan
October 10, 2025
Kazakhistan faces a far different inflationary situation than Peru, and officials at the National Bank of Kazakhstan today made a statement of serious intention to counter price pressures by hiking their reference interest rate to 18.0%, higher than such has been in over a decade, from 16.5%. This latest increase followed ones of 100 basis […] More
New Overnight Developments Abroad - Daily Update
Several Countries Release Price Data and Industrial Production
October 10, 2025
The dollar slipped overnight by 0.3% against the yen, 0.2% versus the Korean won and New Zealand dollar, and 0.15 relative to the euro, Swiss franc and Mexican peso. Notable stock market movements in Asia this Friday ranged from gains of 1.7% in South Korea and 0.9% in Taiwan to losses of 1.0% in Japan […] More
