The Swiss National Bank have a continuous battle to try and weaken the CHF. Remember that a strong currency hurts a countries export market as it makes that countries exports…

USD strength after Hawkish ‘dot plot’ shift The latest FOMC meeting saw a hawkish tilt that the market had not been expecting. Going into the meeting there was anticipation that…

The bottom line is that no change is expected tonight in terms of interest rates or bond tapering. However, the interesting part of tonight will be on the economic and…

This was a holding meeting with a slightly more optimistic tilt. ECB President Lagarde said the decision could be seen as a ‘steady hand’ decision. The statement was virtually the…

In a sentence, not a great deal. This was expected to be a ‘holding meeting’ by the BoC and that was pretty much what it was. Rates kept at 0.25%…

This is the base case for the ECB decision: Deposit rate to be left unchanged at -0.5%. PEPP purchases to be kept unchanged as 85 billion euros in 3Q. Balance…

The base case No change in rates or asset purchases. Remember that at the last meeting the BoC changed their asset purchases from $4 bln per week to $4 bln…

RBA meeting for July The July meeting is key for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) because it is the place where key decisions will be made about the QE…

The Reserve Bank of Australia has taken a decisive step to try and drive unemployment very low. The current rate is 5.5% and the RBA would like to see this…

At the last RBNZ rate meeting, the asset purchases (LSAP programme) were unchanged, the interest rate kept at 0.25%, but the key signal was a forward rate forecast pointing to…