SEK Best Performer As Riksbank Leaves Rates Unchanged
Sweden is ignoring talk of a new round of currency wars that threatens to dominate Group of 20 talks...
No Surprise-ECB Holds Rates Steady
The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged even as a stronger currency threatens the eu...
BoE Refrains From Adding More Stimulus
The Bank of England refrained from adding to stimulus as policy makers kept focus on a credit- boost...
Euro’s Rise Comes at a Cost
Mario Draghi is discovering that confidence in the euro area comes at a cost. Since the European ...
BoJ Governor Departure Hints at More Aggressive Central Bank
The yen hit a 2-and-a-half-year low versus the dollar and Japanese stocks jumped up to 4 percent on ...
Bernanke Warned about Flawed Credit Ratings Risk
Senior Federal Reserve officials including Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned in August 2007 that inves...
USD/TRY – Central Bank’s Index shows Overvalued Lira
The Lira weakened yesterday after the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT)'s Real Effective...
AUD/USD – RBA Holds Rates with Dovish Outlook
Despite holding cash rate at 3.00% as expected, AUD/USD traded lower, breaking 1.04 support once mor...
“Too Early” for Bank of Korea to cut rates
Bank of Korea board member Moon Woo Sik sees no immediate need to alter benchmark interest rates and...
Bank Negara (Bank of Malaysia) keeps overnight policy rate unchanged at 3%
Bank Negara Malaysia maintained the overnight policy rate (OPR) at 3% during its monetary policy com...
USD / THB – Industralist wants BOT to start intervention ala BOJ style
The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has made an official plea to Bank of Thailand (BOT) to start...
NZD / USD – Higher after RBNZ Holds Rates
RBNZ chose to leave the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 2.5%. Governor Wheeler appeared bullis...
MAS: Currency Appreciation can’t fight against “Wall of Money”
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Managing Director Ravi Menon warned that Asia remains vuln...
Profiles of the Fed’s Four New Voting Members
The new voting members in the Federal Open Market Committee will tip the scale towards a more dovish...
Israel Central Bank Chief Resigns
Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel is to step down on 30 June, two years before his ter...
USD / INR – RBI Cut Rate by 25bps: Reaction
Reserve Bank of India slashed the short term lending (repo) rate by 0.25% to 7.75% during its latest...
RBI expected to cut rates on Tuesday
India's central bank is expected to cut interest rates this week for the first time in nine months i...
USD / DKK – Central Bank Raises Interest Rates
Danmarks Nationalbank raised both deposit and lending rate after EUR/DKK rose to the highest level s...
Rate Cut Unlikely in 2013 for Brazilian Real
Brazil's central bank signaled on Thursday that further interest rate cuts are unlikely because they...
Bank of Canada Maintains Overnight Rate at 1 percent
The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per...