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...
by K-man | March 6th, 2019, 11:25:41 | Bank of Canada, Central Banks, Technical Analysis
06.03.2019 Bank of Canada preview. In short, there should be no change in monetary policy, the current conditions are expected roughly balanced between a good job market and the weaker GDP . But that’s where it ends. Where we had an upbeat picture painted by...
by Ryan Littlestone | March 5th, 2019, 18:03:23 | Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 05 March 2019 In line with our forecasts, the 60bp of central bank rate hikes in 2018 is contributing to the ongoing slowdown in global GDP growth, which we estimate will fall below 3% yoy in Q1 2019 for the first...
by K-man | January 30th, 2019, 19:06:24 | Central Banks, Fed, FOMC
Federal reserve interest rate decision 30.01.2019 Removes the reference to “further gradual ” interest rates increases. Also prepared to adjust balance sheet normalisation. Holds rates, pledges patience on future moves. To continue with current floor...