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Express News | Bank of Canada Governor Macram: Higher interest rates will continue to limit household spending
Bank of Japan members collectively turned hawk: it is necessary to raise interest rates steadily; the interest rate path may be faster than expected
① The minutes of the Bank of Japan's April policy meeting show that several members of the Central Bank Committee called for the need to raise interest rates steadily to prevent the risk of inflation being overstated; ② At the meeting, the Bank of Japan gave predictions that future inflation would remain at around 2%.
Bank of Canada warns of risks brought about by changes in interest rate cut expectations
Glonghui, May 9 | The Bank of Canada warned that if interest rate trends do not meet market expectations, the prices of some assets may suddenly reverse. The central bank's financial stability report said that after rapid and aggressive austerity policies, the market “is paying more and more attention to when and how much interest rates will fall.” This has reinvigorated risk appetite and boosted asset prices. Markets and economists have lowered their expectations for the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates, partly because people think that the Bank of Canada deviates from the Federal Reserve's policy to a limited extent without causing monetary weakness.
Is the direction of the wind changing again? Bank of Japan Meeting Minutes: The depreciation of the yen may lead to faster rate hikes!
On May 9, the Bank of Japan released a summary of the April monetary policy meeting. The summary shows that members of the committee are paying close attention to the impact of the weak yen on inflation. The rapid depreciation of the yen may cause the price of imported goods to rise, stimulate inflation, and lead to faster interest rate hikes. Earlier, at the monetary policy meeting held on April 26, the Bank of Japan decided to keep the current monetary policy unchanged and keep the policy interest rate target between 0 and 0.1%. Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said at a press conference after the meeting that the weak yen has yet to have a significant impact on Japan's inflation. The statement led to an acceleration in the depreciation of the yen. But it's been almost two days since Kazuo Ueda
Express News | Hedge funds buy options and bet that the yen will fall back to 1 dollar to 160 yen
The air army is once again assembled! Bet that yen will return to 160
The massive influx of hedge funds into options trading shorting yen highlights traders' doubts about the effects of the authorities' intervention.