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This Is The Same Pattern The Fed Followed Before The Great Depression
This Is The Same Pattern The Fed Followed Before The Great Depression There is immense confusion surrounding July’s Federal Reserve meeting and the rather insane aftermath that has been spurred on in the trade war. The Fed’s latest rate decision of a mere .25 bps cut was seen as “disappointing”, this was then followed by […]
RBI Bows To Political Pressure With Unexpected Rate Cut
RBI Bows To Political Pressure With Unexpected Rate Cut Fed Chairman Jerome Powell isn’t the only leader of a major central bank to capitulate to political (and market) pressure so far this year. On Thursday, RBI Gov. Shaktikanta Das during his first meeting at the helm of the bank led a 4-2 vote to cut […]
The Latest Evidence That Global Trade Has Collapsed: India’s Exports/Imports Plunge By 25%
The Latest Evidence That Global Trade Has Collapsed: India’s Exports/Imports Plunge By 25% Late last month, India surprised 51 out of 52 economists when the RBI cut rates by 50bps. Although economists have a reputation for being terrible when it comes to making predictions (getting it wrong perpetually is almost a job requirement), it’s difficult […]
India “Surprises” 51 Out Of 52 “Experts”, Slashes Rates More Than Expected As Easing Bonanza Continues
India “Surprises” 51 Out Of 52 “Experts”, Slashes Rates More Than Expected As Easing Bonanza Continues Late last month, we asked how long it would be before the RBI hit back in the wake of China’s yuan deval. The Indian government’s chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian had just told ET Now television that India may need to […]
Stephen Poloz’s Zen Moment
Stephen Poloz’s Zen Moment To cut or not to cut, that is the question. And fortunately for Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, it was a pretty easy question. A lagging US recovery, China’s downturn, lower oil prices and “bad weather” all contributed to this interest rate cut. “I wouldn’t describe it as a close […]
Bank of Canada Sees Global Economy, Freaks Out, Cuts Rate, Warns of Financial Stability Risks, Loonie Plunges
Bank of Canada Sees Global Economy, Freaks Out, Cuts Rate, Warns of Financial Stability Risks, Loonie Plunges The Bank of Canada took a good look at the Canadian economy, saw it was sinking into the mire, glanced at the collapsed prices of commodities, particularly oil, saw how they were wreaking havoc in Canada, and then […]
USDCAD Surges To 6 Year Highs As Bank Of Canada Slashes GDP Forecasts, Unexpectedly Cuts Rates
USDCAD Surges To 6 Year Highs As Bank Of Canada Slashes GDP Forecasts, Unexpectedly Cuts Rates In what seems to have surprised FX trader, Bank of Canada has taken an ax to growth forecasts and rates… *BOC CUTS CANADA 2015 GDP FORECAST TO 1.1% FROM 1.9% *BANK OF CANADA CUTS 2Q GDP ESTIMATE TO -0.5% […]
Bank of Canada interest rate decision: To cut or not to cut?
Bank of Canada interest rate decision: To cut or not to cut? With interest rates at historic lows, could it possibly make sense to go even further? It came as a shock to just about everyone when Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz announced the central bank would lower its benchmark lending rate in January to 0.75 […]
Bank of America forecasts another rate cut in Canada
Bank of America forecasts another rate cut in Canada Gloomy outlook for Canadian economy sees loonie pushed to 73 cents Bank of America, one of the U.S.’s biggest banks, says the Bank of Canada may have to cut its key lending rate again later this year. Bank of America says Canada’s economy will underperform the […]
China Cuts Rates (Again) In Desperate Bid To Buoy Stocks, Rescue Economy
China Cuts Rates (Again) In Desperate Bid To Buoy Stocks, Rescue Economy For the third time since November, China has cut its benchmark lending rate. Hours ago, the PBoC slashed the 1-year lending rate by 25bps to 5.1% and the 1-year deposit rate to 2.25%. The move comes just three weeks after Beijing cut the […]
India Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate “Pre-Emptively” For Second Time In 2 Months
India Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate “Pre-Emptively” For Second Time In 2 Months In a surprise move, the RBI just cut its main interest rates for the second time in two months, taking it from 6.75% to 6.50%, in what the central bank calls a “pre-emptive” policy move, but what is in reality merely a […]
China Cuts Interest Rates, Takes Number Of Central Banks Easing In 2015 To 21
China Cuts Interest Rates, Takes Number Of Central Banks Easing In 2015 To 21 And then there were 21. Hours ago on Saturday, the country whose currency is largely pegged to the dollar which itself is now anticipating a rate hike in the coming months, surprised the world by confirming its economic slowdown yet again […]
Australian dollar skids to six-year low after RBA shock
Australian dollar skids to six-year low after RBA shock (Reuters) – The Australian and New Zealand dollars weakened further in early trade in Europe on Tuesday after a sell-off following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s surprise decision to cut interest rates. The outlook for both Antipodean currencies has worsened in recent weeks with concerns about growth generating […]
Putin Fingerprints Seen All Over Surprise Interest-Rate Reversal
Putin Fingerprints Seen All Over Surprise Interest-Rate Reversal (Bloomberg) — The message some Russia watchers are getting from Friday’s surprise interest-rate cut is this: Start listening more to what President Vladimir Putin’s aides say about monetary policy and less to central bankers. Here’s the key evidence. In comments made just nine days ago, the country’s […]
Canada GDP shrinks, stirring talk of another rate cut
Canada GDP shrinks, stirring talk of another rate cut OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.2 percent in November, prompting market talk that the Bank of Canada will cut interest rates in March for the second time in six weeks. Analysts had expected no growth from October. The month-on-month decline was the largest since […]