The Swiss National Bank (SNB) left its policy rate unchanged at 1.75% in its latest interest rate decision. The impact of prior interest rate hikes was seen to be sufficient…
Going into the latest meeting there were two questions dominating investors minds. Firstly, will the Federal Reserve signal a November rate hike? Secondly, will the Federal Reserve signal a higher…
The Bank of Japan has a problem. Politically, there is pressure to relieve domestic markets from the impact of a weak yen. Yes, a weak yen helps some of Japan’s…
The Bank of England meets on Thursday at 12 p.m. UK time. Markets are expecting a 25 basis point rate hike as the UK continues to struggle to deal with…
Heading into the ECB rate meeting this week markets had started to increase expectations for an ECB rate hike after a Reuters source piece explained that ECB inflation projections were…
Going into the ECB rate meeting on Thursday has markets expecting the ECB to remain on hold with rates. The latest Reuters poll shows 39 out of 69 economists expecting…
The Bank of Canada kept interest rates at 5% for the third meeting in a row. Many analysts consider this a hawkish hold as recent slowing growth data from Canada…
The Reserve Bank of Australia decided to hold interest rates unchanged at 4.10%. The reasoning for the holding decision is the RBA wants more time to see how the impact…
Summary analysis of the major central banks’ position Central banks around the world are increasingly finding that peak rates are approaching. The RBNZ has officially paused rates, the ECB may…
At the last Reserve Bank of Australia interest rate meeting, the board decided to take a pause on hiking interest rates as it considered the inflationary peak had passed. However,…