Banks push cheap loans into market as savings rates drop
In the context of negative credit growth during the first two months of 2024, savings interest rates on the market continue to plummet. Many banks are injecting cheap...
In the context of negative credit growth during the first two months of 2024, savings interest rates on the market continue to plummet. Many banks are injecting cheap...
The Bank of Japan lifted the short-term policy rate for the first time in seventeen years last week but the yen still languishes close to its weakest level against...
The Swiss National Bank destroyed this image with its surprise 25-bps rate cut. It is what other central banks might do?
According to financial analysts, deposit rates have hit their lowest level in years and would be tough to cut further, while lending rates continue to fall.
That’s what we think other G10 central banks should – and will - do when they consider rate policy this year. It means that they should still push ahead with rate cuts...
Currency markets have been remarkably stable; particularly the key currency pairing, euro/dollar. But why is that, and is it likely to persist?
Inflation is crucial, and, on this score, the risk is that the Fed will have to keep rates higher for longer; not the ECB.
The Fed Chairman's testimony to Congress and February's nonfarm payrolls data (NFP) are expected to have a significant influence on gold prices next week.
According to Mr. Phung Xuan Minh, Chairman of Saigon Ratings, Vietnam's economy steadily recovered in 2023, stabilised, and laid the groundwork for development...
We’ve already seen in the space of a few short weeks the market adjust its expectations for rate cuts this year from around six 25-bps reductions to four.
We’d still expect the US dollar to rally for the safe-asset reasons.
Immediate efforts are required from the outset of the year to ensure that 2024 will be a year of accelerated and robust economic development.
Last week’s FOMC meeting was generally seen as somewhat more hawkish than expected. A few days later, US payroll data for January was a lot stronger than anticipated....
The global economy has defied a hard landing in 2023. As 2024 unfolds, a new but more complex economic landscape is taking shape.
Just as G10 central banks collectively tightened policy through 2022 and much of 2023, so markets anticipate a collective easing of policy starting in the next few...
If investors want to seek safety from the global risks, how can they find it?
If you look at market pricing of rate policy this year, you will see that it projects that the ECB will start to reduce rates a little later than the Fed and cut rates...
There continues to be a good deal of focus on financial market pricing of central bank policy this year, particularly the Fed.
There continues to be a good deal of focus on financial market pricing of central bank policy this year, particularly the Fed.
Deposit interest rates at four major banks of Vietnam were adjusted sharply, down by 0.4% per year from the previous listings, bringing the rate to 1.8% per year at the...
There seems to be a pretty common narrative that if inflation starts to stick, rather than fall, it will either delay central bank easing or, at worst, force more rate...
Gold prices will be driven by global uncertainties and Fed rate decreases next week.