The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has been at the heart of preventing contagion from the Credit Suisse banking crisis. The SNB is providing large amounts of liquidity assistance in Swiss…
The Bank of England had already seen the Fed’s and the ECB’s response to the banking crisis when it took its decision to hike by 25bps. The ECB hiked by…
The Federal Reserve followed the ECB this week by hiking rates. However, like the ECB, it also communicated that expectations of ongoing rate hikes should be reduced now, or at…
There are two reasons why the Bank of England might hold rates on Thursday. Firstly, due to the banking crises and, secondly, due to inflation expected to fall rapidly in…
Major central bank rundown It’s time for your central bank catch up. The link to the latest statement is at the bottom of each section, so just click there to…
This was Governor Kuroda’s last central bank meeting and there had been some speculation that perhaps he would surprise markets by signaling the eventual exit of Japan’s ultra-loose monetary policy.…
Going into the meeting STIR markets and economists were united in seeing no change from the meeting in terms of rates. The BoC had also stated in its previous meeting…
The RBA thinks it has reached peak inflation and is citing monthly CPI data suggesting that inflation has peaked. Remember going into the meeting we pointed out that the headline…
The RBA meets next week and here are the expectations. Short Term Interest Rate Markets see a 75% chance of a 25bps rate hike. The most recent Reuters poll shows…
In the last RBNZ meeting on February 22 markets were expecting a 50 bps rate hike. The surge in inflation had shown some signs of topping with January’s print coming…