21 July 2017
Overview At their monetary policy meeting in Frankfurt on 20/07/17 the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Governing Council announced that : […]
05 July 2017
The gap between the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed’s) projection for its policy rate at the end of 2019 and what […]
23 June 2017
Speculation about the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) balance sheet — and specifically, what the future path towards its normalisation may look […]
20 June 2017
Recent US economic data has clearly disappointed as shown by our economic surprise index (which calculates an average value for […]
15 June 2017
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) shrugged off a third consecutive weak print for the core consumer price index (CPI) […]
14 June 2017
As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) left its policy rates and its asset purchase programme unchanged at its meeting in […]
29 May 2017
Quarterly eurozone GDP expanded by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2017. It’s the same pace as during the final quarter of 2016 […]
26 May 2017
Official data published on 18/05/17 showed first-quarter growth in Japan of 2.2% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) annualised. This was higher than expected […]
16 May 2017
One disappointing data point can be dismissed as a blip, but two could be the start of an unwelcome trend […]
21 April 2017
Upside risks to inflation have decreased as a result of US political developments during the first quarter Developments over the […]
18 April 2017
Federal Reserve (the Fed), ECB, Trump policy and the French election have been among the factors moving the US dollar recently […]
12 April 2017
There has been confusion in financial markets about the order in which the ECB would taper and ultimately remove monetary […]
24 March 2017
At their meeting on 14 – 15/03/17 the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to raise the target range for […]
16 March 2017
Key points : As widely anticipated the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) raised its target range for the federal funds rate […]
10 March 2017
The ECB left its main monetary policy measures unchanged at the latest meeting of its 25-person policy-setting council on 9 […]
10 March 2017
While US economic data was rather mixed in the week ending Friday 3 March 2017, closely followed speeches from the […]
09 March 2017
The debate among the members of the European Central Bank (ECB) council, who meet today to decide on the course […]
03 March 2017
A distinctly more hawkish tone recently from the Federal Reserve (Fed) in recent days has boosted the probability of a […]
