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...’s hawkish central bank chief Robert Holzmann said on Friday....
...This is forward guidance on steroids and suggests financial markets have few ideas of their own apart from what they learn from the august central bankers. But there are other theories....
...“That will need to be countered by central banks,” Kohn adds....
...They are instead now only fully pricing in such a move by the central bank’s November 6-7 meeting, immediately after the November 5 election, when Biden is set to face his Republican rival Donald Trump....
...This index is tracked by a UK-listed ETF from Invesco with the ticker FTEK LON, though there are other index trackers in the fintech space including one from Global X — ticker FING — and another from Xtrackers...
...It’s under review by officials at the US Treasury, and the European Central Bank has also mounted pressure for the bank to pull out of Russia. Raiffeisen itself seemed surprised by the findings....
...Only three of the eight banks — NatWest, Barclays and Santander — gave data for account closures related to their “risk appetite” at 1.4 per cent, 4.8 per cent and 10.2 per cent, respectively....
...“All of the Magnificent 7 rank in the top 10 largest fund underweights relative to the benchmark,” he wrote, with Apple top of the pile....
...But reducing the cost of internal EU trade barriers by 10 per cent would boost the region’s long-term growth by 7 percentage points, it estimated....
...Markets expect the European Central Bank to start cutting interest rates this year, possibly in April, from their current record high of 4 per cent....
...Consumer price growth across advanced economies has dropped from more than 7 per cent in 2022 to 4.6 per cent in 2023, according to the IMF....
...The central bank, which meets on Wednesday, is not expected to begin cutting rates until this summer....
...European Central Bank policymakers agreed to keep the option open of another interest rate rise, even if it was not part of their “baseline scenario”, when they met last month....
...From a report the investment bank sent out yesterday, with Alphaville’s emphasis below: — The wide adoption of hybrid work caused a structural decline in office demand....
...Goldman Sachs expects it to cut its forecast for eurozone inflation this year from 2.7 per cent to 2.3 per cent and for next year from 2.1 per cent to 2 per cent....
...“There’s still one more inflation release to take into account before the ECB’s March meeting but the numbers for January make us more confident in our forecast that the first rate cut will be in April,”...
...At present, the central bank plans to reduce rates three times this year. Markets expect three or four cuts this year, beginning in June or July....
...Following a 7-2 majority vote, Japan’s central bank announced on March 19 that it would guide the overnight interest rate to remain in a range of roughly zero to 0.1 per cent....
...Tiff Macklem, speaking before his central bank’s recent policy decision....
...Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, said on Tuesday the number of jobless people in the eurozone fell to 10.97mn, down 99,000 from the previous month and 282,000 from a year earlier....
...Libor was a benchmark interest rate, since replaced, determined by daily submissions from several “panel banks”....
...Separate data from the Japan Securities Dealers Association showed more than half a million new Nisa accounts were opened in February 2024, while recent BoJ numbers indicate that the value of stocks and...
...The investment arm of the Italian insurer Generali estimated that issuance, net of redemptions and European Central Bank purchase programmes, would reach €680bn this year, 7 per cent higher than in 2023,...
...This compares with an official 5.2 per cent last year and an average of 7.7 per cent in the decade before the pandemic....
...That would be a key milestone for policymakers at the European Central Bank in the run-up to their next meeting on March 7 as they debate when to start cutting interest rates....
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