How central banks will respond to the surge in energy prices
Unsurprisingly, the surge in energy prices last week has led to a sharp reassessment of the G10 monetary policy outlook. Inflation will undoubtedly rise, if only...
Unsurprisingly, the surge in energy prices last week has led to a sharp reassessment of the G10 monetary policy outlook. Inflation will undoubtedly rise, if only...
The domestic interest rate market during the Lunar New Year (Tet) recorded a number of notable developments: interbank rates experienced sharp fluctuations at times,...
Looking back at 2025, Vietnam successfully maintained a low interest-rate environment to support economic recovery. However, in 2026, monetary policy is likely to shift...
Amid credit outstanding across the economy reaching a high ratio relative to GDP, monetary policy management is no longer focused solely on expanding scale but is...
Monetary policy headroom remains in place in the early months of 2026. However, growing divergence in liquidity conditions and capital costs is forcing businesses and...
Despite many commercial banks' increase in deposit interest rates, experts continue to expect the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to maintain an accommodative monetary...
Many analysts are pretty sure that Fed Chair Powell won’t say this at Friday’s Jackson Hole symposium that the Fed has been put in an impossible position by politics....
MBS expects the average 12-month deposit rates of large commercial banks to fluctuate around the range of 5% - 5.2% in 2025.
The FED could see plenty more evidence of rising inflation expectations before considering action amid Trump’s tariffs.
In 2024, the Vietnamese banking industry faced continuing headwinds with flexible policies on sectoral administration and inflation control and strong restructuring...
Dr. Dinh The Hien, a financial specialist, predicts obstacles for the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) in managing monetary policy in 2025.
A degree of divergence seems likely to creep into G10 monetary policy as the Fed pauses while those that have been easing carry on, and those that have not started to...
Central bankers might have more to think about their monetary policy, because the Fed is pausing and the US dollar is surging.
Economic recovery and an inflation rate close to target should give reason for the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to lift policy rates further. However, the BoJ would need to...
According to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), monetary policy in the coming time will face many pressures, including the impacts of the international context and the...
It will be difficult for the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to further loosen monetary policy due to a rising USD/VNĐ exchange rate pressure, experts said.
The Fed is not the only central bank that has faced difficulties as a result of Donald Trump's victory.
We have spoken many times about how central banks, and particularly the Fed, seem to be basing policy on a more reactive response to the course of data than a proactive...
The ECB cut rates as widely expected but President Lagarde did not tell us whether rates will be cut again as soon as the next meeting.
As a relative price, currencies move most when there is divergence between countries, not convergence.
Politics and monetary policy continue to dominate FX market sentiment and this is unlikely to change in the short-term.
The economy went through the first half of the year, inflation is still under control and forecast to reach the target set by the National Assembly and the Government....