Fed Chair Jerome Powell returns to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of testimony. Markets will be looking for clues about how the central bank is thinking about plans to raise interest rates next year.Powell testified alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, …
Read More »Erdogan To Boost Employment By Lower Interest Rates
Speaking on State TV in Turkey on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Erdogan said that he will boost investment, employment, growth and production by lowering interest rates.Interest rates are the cause and inflation is the result, he continued, adding that he thinks economic growth in 2021 will be about 10%. Hopefully …
Read More »Why Do Markets Await RBA’s Minutes?
The Reserve Bank of Australia will release the minutes of its monetary policy meeting on Tuesday, two weeks after the interest rate decision was announced. The minutes provides a detailed insight on the discussions held between the RBA’s board members on monetary policy and economic conditions that influenced their decision …
Read More »BoE Governor Extremely Uneasy About Spiking Inflation
Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, declared before members of the Parliament that he is ‘very uneasy’ about the UK’s inflation situation, in comments that suggest he could vote for an interest rate rise soon.Testifying to the Treasury Committee, Bailey said this month’s vote to leave interest rates …
Read More »Inflation Impacts All Currencies Including Cryptos
If inflation doesn’t diminish, Fed may need to taper at a more considerable rate and hike interest rates, which could hurt stock and bond markets.Against Japan’s yen the U. S. dollar was last up 0.85% to 113.86 yen after touching Wednesday’s session high of 113.940. On Tuesday the dollar had …
Read More »BOE & ECB Interest Rate Expectations Updates
Rate hike chances are gaining more appeal throughout financial markets for the BOE after the November meeting, given the actual inflation profile, in which there was a 95%+ chance of a 15-bps hike. The European Central Bank has made clear that it does not intend on raising rates anytime soon, but …
Read More »Investors Digest Bailey’s Hints on Rates Hike
Andrew Bailey has insisted that the Bank of England will raise interest rates if expectations of higher inflation drive up wages.The BoE’s Governor stressed that policymakers would intervene to avoid the prospect of heightened price growth becoming “generalized” across the British economy.He was participating in a virtual question and answer …
Read More »BoE’s Signals Combating Inflation with Rates Action
The Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, has stated in recent trade that the U. K. will have to act with rates if there is evidence of higher inflation expectations impacting workers’ wages.Key comments by BoE’s Bailey:Much of rise in inflation has to do with reopening after lockdowns.What we are …
Read More »Weekly Recap 01-05 November
All expectations that signals by BoC and RBA could push the world’s monetary policy actors to accelerate their own timelines for interest rate hikes, ran into a solid wall with the U. S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank announcing they would not hike interest rates so fast, though Fed …
Read More »Powell and Lagarde to markets: Hold your rate horses
All expectations that tightening signals by BoC and RBA would push the world’s biggest monetary policy actors to accelerate their own timelines for rate hikes ran into a wall with the U. S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank saying they would not hike interest rates so fast.Rate futures and …
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