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 | October 18th, 2021, 11:10:13 | News
Markets are getting all bullish over rate hikes As I write this, the market is pricing in a 15bp hike at the Nov BOE MPC meeting, and see rates at 1.00% by Aug 2022. The ECB is pricing a 10bp hike by Sep 2022, up from Dec and as for the Fed, we’re looking at...
by Ryan Littlestone | March 19th, 2020, 13:12:33 | Central Banks, News
With rising talk about direct Forex intervention, what might central banks do? We like to be ahead of the game at ForexFlow, hence the warning about an increase in intervention talk 30 mins before two CB’s started talking about intervention ? But, how might that...
by Ryan Littlestone | March 10th, 2020, 12:21:10 | Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) from 4X Global Research The drastic measures which governments across the world have taken so far to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus have few precedents outside of war times and therefore quantifying their...
by Ryan Littlestone | February 5th, 2020, 15:19:15 | Central Banks
BCB preview from our resident South American expert Jorge The Monetary Policy Committee (COPOM) first meeting of 2020 and rate currently at 4.5% per year. There is the possibility of a further 0.25 percentage point reduction in the SELIC rate, to 4.25% per year....
