Central banks’ monetary policy faces challenges
Many central banks are concerned about reducing inflation while maintaining financial stability.
Many central banks are concerned about reducing inflation while maintaining financial stability.
On the afternoon of March 14, many investors were left startled when the State Bank of Vietnam decided to reduce the operating interest rate and the short-term lending...
Financial stability risks arising from banking stress make policy judgments far harder for central banks.
Many analysts believe gold prices will reach a new high despite the fact that the Fed will raise interest rates by 0.25% next week.
The question now is not just whether central banks like the ECB and Fed may pause rate hikes on the basis that they don’t want to inflame banking strains.
In recent weeks, we have seen US Treasury yields rise, and we have also seen market expectations for the Fed’s terminal rate increase as well.
All G10 central banks are data dependent when they set policy and most emerging market central banks too.
News that the NY Fed’s widely-followed measure of global supply chain pressure returned to ‘normal’ levels for the first time in two-and-a-half years might offer...
The current environment facing central banks is unlike that faced by them in the past and the consequence is that the path of policy will be different as well. One key...
Fed Chairman Powell will testify before the Senate Banking Committee on the Federal Reserve's semiannual monetary policy report. If he maintains his hawkish stance, gold...
Gold prices may remain flat next week due to rising expectations that the Fed will raise interest rates by 0.5% at its upcoming meeting.
The Federal Reserve released a paper last year that argued quantitative tightening by the Fed over a two-year period at a monthly pace of USD95bn per month is equivalent...
Gold price has fallen for the fourth week in a row, as investors are concerned about how aggressive the Federal Reserve will have to be in order to bring inflation down...
When will the Fed start to cut interest rates after deciding that rate hikes are no longer necessary?
The last week’s Fed, ECB and BoE meetings have been notable for the slightly more dovish, or hopeful comments from bank leaders.
FED, ECB and Bank of England will all probably hike policy rates this week, but not necessarily by the same amounts.
Up until 2021, advanced-country central banks found it too easy to achieve their 2% inflation targets. Now they find it too hard. Instead, achieving a full employment...
With little prospect of monetary expansion in 2023, central banks may continue to tighten their monetary policies.
The Fed's decision to scale back its rate hike, US default risk, and other factors will support the gold price next week.
Over the holiday period there’s been an interesting debate about inflation stirred by former IMF chief economist, Olivier Blanchard.
Should central banks try to guide the public’s expectations of interest rates?
The Fed, ECB, BOE and SNB all hiked 50-bps while Norges Bank announced a smaller 25-bps hike.