by Ryan Littlestone | April 21st, 2022, 10:20:59 | Central Banks, ECB, Technical Analysis
Have we seen some game changing ECB speakers? We’ve had a slew of hawks coming out but it’s really been de Guindos today that’s been the key one for me. Looking back over prior speeches, he’s been more cautious about the path of tightening. He...
by Ryan Littlestone | March 9th, 2022, 11:13:25 | Central Banks, News
Ukraine/Russia conflict is going to exacerbate problems for the world’s central banks Do you know what a central bank doesn’t want when it’s trying to play catch up on an inflation shock? It’s another inflationary shock piled on top of the...
by Ryan Littlestone | November 3rd, 2021, 10:57:38 | Central Banks, Fed, FOMC
Some final thoughts for today’s FOMC As you might expect, our chatrooms this past week has been full of central bank talk and who might do what and when, and now attention has turned to the Fed. I’ll start by repeating that I don’t think the taper is...
by Ryan Littlestone | November 2nd, 2021, 09:16:19 | Central Banks, RBA, Technical Analysis
The cracks have appeared in the RBA’s stance Half of me is surprised that AUD hasn’t reacted better to that, the other half isn’t after seeing the FX reaction to the BOC and ECB, so think we’re not really trading (these) CB’s properly...
by Ryan Littlestone | October 27th, 2021, 11:13:11 | Central Banks, News
Today’s BOC meeting may have far greater consequences than just what affects Canada Obviously not dismissing the trading impact of the BOC on CAD, or Canada in general but that may not be the big news. There’s many folks thinking that the BOC will try and...
by Ryan Littlestone | August 5th, 2021, 09:24:02 | BOE, Central Banks
Bank of England time! A bit of a changing of the guard going on. Haldane was the only voter to cut QE at the last meeting and he’s now gone. This is Vlieghe’s last meeting so it doesn’t really matter what his view are but just for reference,...
