National Bank of Tajikistan
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Namibia Central Bank Rate Changes
October 26, 2022
Officials at the National Bank of Kazakhstan raised their policy interest rate by 150 basis points to 16.0%, which is more than a 7-year high and which follows seven increases between July 2021 and July 2022 totaling 550 basis points. CPI inflation in Kazakhstan accelerated to a 75-month high of 17.7% in September from 16.1% […] More
Convergence of Fed-ECB Interest Rate Biases Sends Dollar Lower
October 26, 2022
The dollar has prospered throughout 2022 largely because the Federal Reserve had been seen as more aggressive in raising interest rates than the European Central Bank and other central banks. Today’s main market theme is that perhaps the monetary policy gap will not be as wide as thought previously. The ECB Governing Council will likely […] More
Tightening Monetary Policies Continue to Lift the Dollar but Depress Share Prices
August 22, 2022
Financial markets are in a risk-averse mood ahead of the annual Jackson Hole Symposium that begins at the end of this week. U.S. stock futures were down 1.0-1.5% shortly before the opening bell. European stock markets had sunk so far today by 2.1% in Germany, 1.7% in Italy, 1.6% in France and 1.0% in Spain. […] More
Rate Hikes in Kazakhstan and Tajikstan
October 25, 2021
Two central banks from the former Soviet empire raised interest rates in response to rising and above-target inflation. The National Bank of Tajikstan lifted its policy rate by 25 basis points to 13.25%. The rate had been raised previously this year by a full percentage point in both April and July after an initial 25-basis […] More
Two-Day FOMC Meeting Ends Today with Likely Same Dovish Message
July 28, 2021
Against the backdrop of rising Covid-19 infections in the United States, this isn’t the time for the Fed to express a lot of concern about inflation or to show greater urgency as official begin to contemplate a plan to taper monetary stimulus. In the three days of July 25-27, new U.S. coronavirus cases averaged 57.3k […] More
