BOJ board member Kiuchi speaking to reporters 23 June 2016 lower borrowing costs from neg rates aren't leading much to increase in bank lending Another central banker who foolishly believes that cheap money will be lent by banks rather than shoring up their defences...
Comments from Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda Kuroda speaking on a television program aired today. Headlines via Bloomberg : My personality is cautiously optimistic (That may be from his Tinder profile) Fiscal policy results don't always turn out as expected...
More from Yellen Households are in much improved shape Low change US will be in recession at year-end Not likely Brexit will push US into recession Yellen is betting hard on the consumer...
German Constitutional court rules on OMT cases Backs OMT program with caveats These were some other challenges made by various parties and came after the main case was passed from the German court to the European Court of Justice, which also found no problems with the OMT program...
Peoples Bank of China out with their latest report 21 June 2016 hopes to keep economic growth within reasonable range expects mild acceleration in inflation will strictly control addition of industrial capacity will proactively deal with zombie firms...
Reserve Bank of Australia June meeting minutes out now Appreciation of AUD could complicate adjustment of economy to the lower terms of trade Board judged leaving rates steady at June 7 meeting was consistent with sustainable growth Low interest rates and weaker AUD since 2013 helped support abov...
Reserve Bank of India governor over the wires 20 June 2016 India can't abandon inflation to focus on growth can't have it both ways, wanting lower inflation and lower rates The RBI governor very much on the front foot in the wake of his surprise announcement at the weekend not to serve a second t...
Mr K on Bloomberg. Is he saying his cup is half full or half empty...
BOJ governor Kuroda back across the wires 20 June 2016 inflation expectations observed in practice are highly sticky and change only slowly firmly stabilising inflation expectations at desired level represents and unprecedented difficult challenge changing deflationary mindset absolutely necessar...
Says yen is gradually appreciating to 100 May reach 100 by the end of 2016 Thanks Sak, appreciate your input Headlines via Bloomberg 'Mr. Yen' Eisuke Sakakibara, former Vice Finance Minister and in charge of intervention at Japan's Ministry of Finance from 1997 to 1999...
At the risk of alerting the paparazzi, eager to snap pics of Janet Yellen at any opportunity Yellen to appear in the US Congress twice this week ... its "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress...
Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda is due to speak today, at Keio University in Tokyo No topic listed, nor a starting time. So, he could say ANYTHING! at ANYTIME! OMG What else? 2200GMT - New Zealand - Westpac with Q2 Consumer confidence (prior 109.6...
He bought with $27 bitcoin in 2009 and forget about them. 4 years later he opened his bitcoin account to find that his investment is equal to $800,000...
The long awaited speech is out and it's a dudLaudatio for Theo WaigelSpeech by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, in honour of Dr...
Double bubble Bullard Mismatch between markets and Fed dot plot is causing distortions in global markets Best thing for Fed to say is that the economy is not likely to change much in the foreseeable future Fed should acknowledge that the economy won't change much without an outside shock Fed shou...
Bloomberg picking up comments from MNI There is some upside potential to inflation than forecasts show Measures from March are still new and mon pol has long lags Focus is now on near term developments We need all incoming data in the next months before deciding...
St Lous Fed head Bullard back on the wires 17 June 2016 maybe even more than 30 months Oh no, Bully the Bore is going to give my typing fingers a real end of session test! economy may have slipped into slow-growth mode where appropriate Fed policy rate is 0...
As always traders will be keen to feed off any scraps but the speech is at an awards ceremony and not necessarily key-note. That's not to say though that Magic Mario isn't capable of pulling something out of the hat so we'll see what transpires...
BOJ Market Group meeting Minutes now published 17 June 2016 following the introduction of the negative interest rate policy, liquidity and functioning of the JGB market have largely declined sluggishness of trading in the market can be described as "contracted equilibrium" more and more financial...
FSA, MoF, BOJ officials are meeting to discuss financial mkts Asakawa remarks crossing on the screens: BOJ, MoF, FSA share view the volatility is rising in FX, financial markets (Masatsugu Asakawa is vice finance minister for international affairs) More...
