WSJ Fed insider says its Open Market Committee (FOMC) preparing a 25bp rate hike next week
A weekend piece from Nick Timiraos in the Wall Street Journal. Says Federal Reserve officials are preparing to slow down from a 50bp rate hike in December to 25bp this time around (the meeting is January 31/February 1). And that further debate at the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will centre on when to ‘paude’ […]
ECB's Holzmann: I expect multiple rate hikes of 50 basis point at least in the 1H of 2023
<p>ECBs Holzmann is speaking to Austrian newspaper Die Presse and says:</p><ul><li>I expect multiple rate hikes of 50 basis points, at least in the 1H of 2023</li><li>Core inflation is above 5%, which is 2 1/2 times our target</li><li>there could be rate hikes if headline inflation has fallen significantly, but core inflation has not.</li><li>I am reluctant to […]
OANDA Japan Stops fxTrade Desktop Download, Changes USD/JPY Margin Rate
OANDA Securities, the Japanese subsidiary of longstanding online forex and CFD brokerage company, OANDA Corporation, stopped new downloads of the desktop version of its fxTrade trading platform Trading Platform In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader […]
USD remains range-bound on dovish Fed rate hike outlook
Asset markets are somewhat sluggish and reluctant to recover on Friday, following Thursday’s drop, which saw S&P 500 breaking through 3900 points. Dollar was slightly bid on the back of growing risk-off, however, during this week the DXY appears to remain in equilibrium in the range of 102-102.50:Despite a slew of negative updates on the […]
PBOC is expected to set the USD/CNY reference rate at 6.7708 – Reuters estimate
<p>PBOC CNY reference rate is due around 0115 GMT.</p> This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com. Source link
Fed’s Bullard doesn’t want to ‘stall’ on getting interest rates over 5%
The Federal Reserve should not “stall” on raising its benchmark rates until they are above 5%, said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, on Wednesday. “I like the front-loading story,” Bullard said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that was streamed live . The Fed should move as rapidly as it can to […]
GBPUSD Slips But Remains Well Bid On Interest Rate Bets
GBP/USD Prices, News, and Analysis GBPUSD is still supported by expectations that UK rates have higher to climb Strong wage data this week underlines the view Technically, the uptrend from September still dominates Recommended by David Cottle Building Confidence in Trading Sterling bulls still have December’s six-month highs against the United States Dollar firmly in […]
BOJ Interest Rate Decision: Another Surprise?
Yen pairs have been extraordinarily active these last couple of days. Implied volatility in the USDJPY rose to a six-month high. There is a lot of apprehension about what might happen at the BOJ’s interest rate decision overnight. Which is funny, because the consensus among economists and analysts is that there won’t be any change […]
China’s GDP growth rate well shy of the official target in 2022
On Tuesday morning, the Shanghai Composite Index and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell as data published by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics showed that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 3% in 2022, recording one of the slowest growth rates in the last decades. Commenting on China’s GDP growth, Goldman Sachs analysts […]
PBOC is expected to set the USD/CNY reference rate at 6.7090 – Reuters estimate
<p>PBOC CNY reference rate is due around 0115 GMT.</p><p>Heads up for later today:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/pboc-mlf-liquidity-injection-today-unchanged-rate-expected-but-some-expect-a-small-cut-20230115/" target="_blank" rel="follow" data-article-link="true">PBOC MLF liquidity injection today – unchanged rate expected (but some expect a small cut)</a></li></ul><p>PBOC Governor Yi Gang</p> This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com. Source link