Going into the ECB meeting there were expectations that after the ECB’s strategic review, the ECB would be revealing a more dovish hand. At the heart of those dovish expectations…
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck then, guess what, it is a duck! The recovery this week makes sense as the…
The ECB rate meeting is approaching this week and is expected to be a very interesting summit after the release of the ECB strategic review. Have a look at this…
This video is overviewing a central bank divergence that has just opened up between the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in order to explain…
The ECB have three main tools that they use for their monetary policy mandate which has recently shifted emphasis a little. Here is what we need to know. ECB strategic…
The Bank of Japan remains a very boring central bank to follow with very little in terms of change. This last meeting was no exception and rates were kept at…
The BoC held rates at 0.25% but the surprise this month was that the central bank was a little more neutral than many market participants were expecting. Yes, they cut…
This week was a good week for the reflation trade. US treasuries were able to stay fairly subdued, despite really strong US CPI data as the Fed stuck to the…
The official cash rate remained the same at 0.25%, but the headline surprise was that the RBNZ agreed to halt additional asset purchases under the LSAP agreement by July 23.…
Canada’s economy is showing excellent signs of improvement and the last jobs report has shown that the jobs market is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels. Jobs galore The jobs print…