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US rate rise decision is finely balanced

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UNITED STATES

The chance of a rates 'lift-off' at this meeting has receded recently due to heightened financial-markets volatility and global economic sluggishness. It currently stands at 30%…

ECB faces multiple challenges in withdrawing stimulus

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EU

ECB policy deliberations.

ECB will extend QE programme on December 3

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EURO-AREA

At a press conference after the previous meeting on October 22, ECB President Mario Draghi was clear that downside risks to the inflation outlook might lead to a reassessment at…

Jackson Hole meet risks intensifying investor concerns

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INTERNATIONAL

The dollar index has fallen by about 10% since early January, to its lowest since April 2016, under the strain of US President Donald Trump’s political woes and robust euro-area…

Absence of price pressures checks central bank hawks

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INTERNATIONAL

The impact of persistently low inflation on the pace of monetary policy 'regime change' in most countries.

Political pressure on Turkey's Central Bank will go on

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TURKEY

The CBRT is expected to respond at its regular monthly interest rate-setting meeting to the fall in inflation in January to 7.2%. However, while the nearly 50% slide in oil…

US Fed hawkishness raises the risk of a policy mistake

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UNITED STATES

At its interest rate meeting on September 20, the Fed had brushed aside mounting concerns about persistently low inflation, announcing that it will begin to unwind its…

Japan will stay the course on monetary easing

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JAPAN

Monetary policy in Japan.

Monetary easing may quicken in Brazil this year

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BRAZIL

At its first meeting of 2017, on January 10-11, the COPOM reduced the benchmark Selic interest rate to 13%. The 75-basis-point (bp) rate cut decision, the largest in nearly five…

Central European monetary policy may stay ultra-loose

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CENTRAL EUROPE

Financial markets in Central Europe (CE) are closely correlated with those in the core of the euro-area and their central banks are the most dovish in emerging markets (EMs)…