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The European Central Bank held its monetary policy meeting last week on Thursday. As widely expected, the central bank did not make any changes to its monetary policy, leaving interest rates and QE purchases unchanged. The base…
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The Bank of England will be meeting this week for its monetary policy decision. According to the economists polled, the central bank is widely expected to hike rates by 25 basis points this Thursday. The overnight index swaps markets are…
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The Bank of Canada was seen hiking interest rates at its monetary policy meeting on Wednesday in what was a close call. However, economists were expecting the BoC to hike rates. The BoC signaled that there was room for more rate hikes and…
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The Bank of Canada will be holding its monetary policy meeting today on 11th July 2018. According to the economists polled, the Bank of Canada is expected to hike interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.50%. However, approaching the event…
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While until recently, economists were hawkish on the Bank of Canada and preparing for a rate hike as early as July, the prospects of a rate hike are starting to diminish if recent data is anything to go by. Last week, data from Canada…
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The Bank of England held its monetary policy meeting last week on Thursday. As widely expected, the central bank left the key interest rate unchanged at 0.50%. However, the central bank was seen laying the ground work for a rate hike in…
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The Bank of England's monetary policy meeting is scheduled for this week on Thursday. According to the economists polled and the market watchers, the UK's central bank is expected to leave interest rates unchanged at this week's meeting.…
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The Federal Reserve will be holding its two-day FOMC meeting on June 13 and 14. According to the various economic indicators and the Fed's minutes from May, the futures and the swaps markets are pricing in a full 25 basis point rate hike…
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The European Central Bank was seen holding monetary policy unchanged at its meeting last Thursday. The ECB President Mario Draghi was widely expected to down play the concerns over the recent weak patch of economic data from the Eurozone…
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The pound sustains its biggest weekly decline in over four months after the Bank of England governor sparked a rethink of interest rate hike expectations for next month’s meeting. Is the BoE the latest central bank to panic over the rapid…
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