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.... 
by Ryan Littlestone | July 5th, 2019, 10:41:48 | Education, News
Who feels the need to pay governments to hold their money? It’s one thing to point at the bond market and scream that it’s flagging problems about the economy but what is really behind the moves, and why do people buy bonds to only to pay the issuer to... 
by K-man | March 21st, 2019, 21:33:16 | Central Banks, Technical Analysis
Norges Bank stands tall and raises rates. It was expected, they delivered. But they delivered much more than just a 25 bps expected rate hike from 0.75% to 1%. They steepened the rate path by bringing forward the next expected rate hike from Q3 2019 to June and...