Month: April 2018

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  Fed's Quarles: Bank system strengthened considerably in the past decade

  Feds Quarles testifies before Congressional House committee tomorrow Fed's Quarles is to testify on supervision and regulation before the House Financial Services Committee, in Washington DC[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:11

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  Fed's Williams: FOMC needs to continue on gradual rate hike path

  Williams in Madrid - Gradual hikes reduce the risk the economy could overheat - Outlook for US economy is very positive - Core inflation to[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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  Fed's Kashkari: There is no 'extreme labor shortage'

  Companies just aren't used to paying more for quality workers The Fed's Kashkari chimed in on twitter in response to yesterday's WSJ story about a[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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  Fed's Harker: Labor market fairly tight

  Harker in Philadelphia No real comments on rates or the economic outlook. He warned that student loan debt could burden new workers and dissuade others[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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  Fed's Williams says he doesn't expect inverted yield curve in next few years

  More from Williams Don't look now but 10s-30s is at 18 bps and 2s-30s is at just 62 bps. And Williams is talking about 75[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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  ECB's Hansson sees more confidence on inflation developments

  ECB member Ardo Hansson speaks in Tallinn As "confident" as he is, inflationary pressures in the Eurozone remains subdued. And while the ECB may get[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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  BOJ likely to maintain inflation forecast in quarterly review next week - Reuters

  Citing unnamed sources Says that the BOJ will likely maintain forecast that inflation will reach its 2% inflation target during the next fiscal year in[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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  PBOC sets USD/ CNY central rate at 6.2771 (vs. yesterday at 6.2884)

  
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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  RBA April minutes: An appreciation in AUD would slow expected inflation

  Reserve Bank of Australia April monetary policy board minutes   Full text is linked below - these rapid headlines via Reuters    These are very[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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  PBOC offering MLF today

  People's Bank of China injecting funds via the  Medium term lending facility  - 367.5bn yuan MLF - 1 year maturity - Rate 3.3% (  up[...]
  2018-04-18 11:17:07

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