Day: September 18, 2018

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  Former Fed Chair Yellen says keep rates lower for longer, let the economy rip

  Janet Yellen was speaking at a Brookings Institution conference, said let the economy boom Maybe she was just having a little fun with the Prez[...]
  2018-09-18 22:12:43

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  Fed's Evans: It's entirely natural to think short-term neutral may rise above long-run estimate

  Fed's Evans speaks to reporter ForexLive
  2018-09-18 22:12:43

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  A handful of ECB policymakers wanted to say risks were tilted to downside - report

  ECB sources from Reuters Draghi said risks were balanced, so there must have been some people on the other side. Draghi was surprisingly upbeat yesterday[...]
  2018-09-18 22:12:43

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  Video: What's all this talk about neutral rates?

  Talk of higher neutral rates are pushing up Treasury yields I was on BNNBloomberg yesterday talking about global currencies. If you skip ahead to 2:50,[...]
  2018-09-18 22:12:43

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  Mary Daly named as new San Francisco Fed President

  San Francisco Fed promotes from within Mary Daly will be the next President of the San Francisco Fed, taking over from John Williams who will[...]
  2018-09-18 22:12:43

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  Bundesbank head (and ECB board member) Weidmann says can’t prevent crashes

  Bundesbank President Jen Weidmann spoke over the weekend on financial crises - Said despite tightening of regulations governments cannot completely prevent cireses such as the[...]
  2018-09-18 22:11:06

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  AUD traders - what's coming up in Australia this week, mainly from the RBA

  Its a week on the quiet side for Australian economic data, with lower-tier releases: Tuesday: - Weekly consumer confidence from ANZ/Roy Morgan - RBA minutes[...]
  2018-09-18 22:11:06

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  Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is “doing a very good job” says Gove

  BoE comments from UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove in an interview with the BBC "He's doing a very good job, Gove also had Brexit comments[...]
  2018-09-18 22:11:06

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  PBOC sets USD/ CNY central rate at 6.8509 (vs. Friday at 6.8362)

  Reference rate to open the week from the People's Bank of China  CFETS RMB index (the yuan against a basket of currencies) was at 93.05[...]
  2018-09-18 22:11:06

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  PBOC to add 1 year funds liquidity through MLF. Amount is 265bn yuan.

  Earlier today the PBOC skipped OMO It got spidey senses tingling and I f we'd get a longer-term fund injection wondered out loud i And[...]
  2018-09-18 22:11:06

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