BOJ seen keeping policy ultra-easy, focus on rate-hike hints
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is likely to maintain its ultra-loose monetary settings next week, putting the focus on any hints Governor Kazuo Ueda drops…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is likely to maintain its ultra-loose monetary settings next week, putting the focus on any hints Governor Kazuo Ueda drops…
LONDON (Reuters) – A number of banks including Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank on Wednesday revised upward expectations for further UK interest rate hikes as a second straight day of…
(Reuters) – Most major U.S. banks expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by another 25 basis points next month, following evidence of sticky inflation and a strong labor…
(Reuters) – Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) expects the country’s central bank to pull brakes next week on one of the most aggressive tightening cycles in decades as data signalled…
By Gaurav Dogra (Reuters) – Most emerging Asia ex-China equity markets witnessed foreign outflows in February as strong U.S. economic data stirred worries that the Federal Reserve would keep interest…
By Leigh Thomas and Francesco Canepa PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European Central Bank interest rates still have some way to rise, two influential policymakers said on Friday, pushing up market pricing…
(Reuters) – Most Asian bonds witnessed foreign inflows in January, driven by hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve would slow down the pace of its monetary tightening as inflation worries…
By Himanshi Akhand (Reuters) – Bullish bets on most Asian currencies eased as strong U.S. economic data recently gave the dollar a fillip and raised bets that interest rates would…
(Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened sharply higher on Tuesday after a smaller-than-expected rise in U.S. consumer prices raised hopes that the Federal Reserve could soften its aggressive rate…
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s Monetary Policy Council (MPC) should start discussing rate hikes again, central banker Ludwik Kotecki said on Friday, adding that talk of when borrowing costs could fall…
By Seher Dareen (Reuters) – Gold prices were on track to gain for the week, rising more than 1% on Friday as the dollar weakened amid reports of a potential…
By Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) -Britain’s homebuilders index hit a more than 11-year low on Monday on concerns that a weaker pound could lead to more rate hikes by the Bank…
By Gaurav Dogra (Reuters) – Foreigners were net purchasers of emerging Asia ex-China bonds for a second successive month in August, although the buying was measured on concerns over soaring…
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish central banker Cezary Kochalski said there was significantly reduced room for further interest rate hikes and that the probability of ending the monetary tightening cycle had…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is expected to reiterate its resolve next week to keep monetary policy ultra-loose and remain a dovish outlier as many…
By Savyata Mishra (Reuters) – Bearish bets on the Philippine peso grew as the central bank adopted a more modest approach than its peers to tamp down inflation, while short…
(Corrects currency in 5th graf, no other changes.) ZURICH – The Swiss National Bank will likely hold fast to the world’s lowest interest rate when it gives its latest monetary…
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK – Geopolitical worries are clouding the outlook for U.S. stocks, even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine moderates expectations for how aggressively the Federal Reserve will…
By Balazs Koranyi, Leika Kihara and Howard Schneider FRANKFURT/TOKYO/WASHINGTON – Today’s central bankers have the unenviable task of weaning a pandemic-hit global economy off cheap money amid unprecedented sovereign debt…