Central bank's policy option towards boosting growth, more caution needed
The harmonious combination of boosting growth and controlling risks in the banking industry is always likened to the coordination between a vehicle’s brake pedal and...
The harmonious combination of boosting growth and controlling risks in the banking industry is always likened to the coordination between a vehicle’s brake pedal and...
The US dollar has been very stable so far this year—much more than we’ve seen in prior years, with a less than 4% trading range on the Federal Reserve’s broad...
The prospect of easier monetary policy next year could help limit the US dollar’s upside and start to deliver a significantly weaker greenback in the coming years.
Monetary policy was changed from "tight and firm" to "flexible and loosened", that is, both ensuring the goal of macroeconomic stability and supporting economic...
The key question now is what happens when, and if, the Bank of Japan reverses policy and so makes the yen a less attractive currency for the carry trade.
Supporting economic recovery, controlling inflation, stabilizing interest rates, and ensuring credit demand... are the goals targeted by the monetary policy amid the...
Operating monetary policy does not allow "trial and error" in the context of many difficulties. Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Pham Thanh Ha said...
Many central banks hold out hopes that they can both defeat inflation and avoid a recession, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand appears far more realistic about its chances.
Vietnam's monetary policy is a multi-objective in coordination with fiscal policy. However, the "reversal" of monetary policy in the first months of the year showed...
As most advanced-country central banks near the end-game for their policy tightening, we are starting to see notable differences in policy preferences. This is something...
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) cut its policy rates twice in March 2023.
Many central banks are concerned about reducing inflation while maintaining financial stability.
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.
Despite high inflation, ASEAN central banks’ primary focus will shift, if it has not already done so, to softer growth.
It seems that central banks might have to keep raising rates until they see some real traction in the labor market, meaning, at a minimum, notable increases in...
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...
At the beginning of 2023, many forecasts suggest that the State Bank (SBV) may have to continue the trend of tightening monetary policy, in the context that the trend of...
The year 2022 has been a mixed picture of low public investment with not much room for a robust monetary policy.
According to Assoc. Prof. Dr Pham The Anh, Chief Economist of the Vietnam Center for Economic and Strategic Studies (VESS), states that economic growth tends to slow...
The SBV last week raised the 2022 credit growth target for the domestic banking system by 1.5-2 percentage points from its previous target of 14 per cent, allowing...
Vietnam's monetary policy is under huge pressure to stabilize the exchange rate and also maintain the interest rate.
Many people are concerned whether the country will face a tighter monetary policy and higher exchange and interest rates in the near future.