Bank of Mexico
Dollar Ending Week on an Up-Note But Euro Steady
March 26, 2021
The dollar overnight appreciated another 0.35% on a trade weighted basis, but strength wasn’t even this time. The dollar rose 0.6% against the yen and 1.0% relative to the Turkish lira. The key EUR/USD relationship is unchanged, and the greenback has slipped 0.4% versus the New Zealand and Australian dollars, 0.3% vis-a-vis the Canadian dollar […] More
Dollar Rose Slightly
February 12, 2021
The dollar recovered 0.5% against the Mexican peso and New Zealand dollar, 0.3% relative to the Swiss franc and Australian dollar, 0.2% versus the euro, yen, and loonie, and 0.1% against sterling overnight. On a trade-weighted basis, the U.S. currency is up 0.2% and trading in the middle of today’s high-low corridor. Lunar New Year […] More
Last Meaningful Week of 2020 Drawing to Close
December 18, 2020
Ahead of the approaching year-end holidays, this week saw a rush of central bank policy reviews and data releases, many coming a couple of days earlier in December than is customary in other months. Foreign exchange trading tends to lose some breadth and depth in the final weeks of December, making currency relationships prone to […] More
Additional Leap in U.S. Covid Cases; Euroland 3Q GDP and U.S. PPI Headline Data Menu
November 13, 2020
The dollar is slightly weaker today, with overnight losses of 0.4% against the peso, 0.3% versus sterling, 0.2% vis-a-vis the yen and Australian dollar, and 0.1% relative to the Swiss franc. The dollar is also unchanged against the yuan and euro. Covid News continued to weigh on Asian equities, which dropped 0.9% in China, 0.7% […] More
Seventh Bank of Mexico Interest Rate Cut of 2020
September 24, 2020
The five-member Bank of Mexico Governing Board decided unanimously to cut its key interest rate to 4.25% from 4.5%. This was the seventh reduction reduction so far this year but only half the the incremental change in the the previous five adjustments but matches the size of the initial cut in February. Although Mexican GDP […] More
Another Mexican Central Bank Rate Cut
August 13, 2020
Over the past six months, policymakers at the Bank of Mexico have engineered six interest rate cuts totaling 275 basis points. The last five of these moves including today’s announcement were cuts of 50 basis points, and the overnight interbank interest rate now becomes 4.50%, which is a 3-1/2 year low. This latest easing, according […] More
Another Mexican Central Bank Interest Rate Cut
June 25, 2020
The Governing Board unanimously cut the overnight interbank interest rate by 50 basis points to 5.0%. This was the fourth straight monthly cut of 50 basis points, and there was also a 25 basis point cut made in February and three 25-bp reductions during the last four and a half months of 2019. The rate […] More
Bank of Mexico’s Fourth Straight Rate Cut …and More Likely in Future
May 14, 2020
The first overnight rate cut of 25 basis points done in February has been followed by 50-basis point moves in March, April and now May. Today’s action was larger than some analysts anticipated but decided by a unanimous 5-0 vote. The key rate’s new level of 5.5% represents a 3-1/2 year low and a total […] More
More Macroeconomic Relief around the World
April 22, 2020
The U.S. Congress approved a fourth fiscal package that’s just a tad short of $500 billion. South Africa unveiled $26 billion of fiscal support, which is equal to about a tenth of GDP. The Bank of Mexico Governing Board held an unscheduled meeting, cutting its policy rate for the third time this year. Along with […] More
Central Bank Rate Cuts in Mexico and Albania
March 25, 2020
Given the flurry of inter-meeting central bank interest rate cuts during the Covid-19 pandemic, some moves have slipped initially under the radar. The Bank of Mexico overnight interbank rate had been already cut by 150 basis points since last August. At an emergency Governing Board meeting last Friday, the policy rate was sliced by a […] More
