Archive for January 29th, 2008

Slovakia: NBS stays on hold

January 29th, 2008 | Category: Forex news
At todayÂ’s monetary policy setting meeting, the Slovak central bank (NBS) decided in favour of unchanged interest rates, keeping the key policy rate at 4.25%. This decision was broadly expected by us and consensus, and the market reaction was rather limited. Comments are off for this post

FOMC: Preview of policy meeting

January 29th, 2008 | Category: Forex news
Overview: On Wednesday night at 20:15 CET the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will announce its policy rate decision. Following the 75bp inter-meeting easing last week, markets have currently settled with 86% probability of a 50bp cut at the upcoming meeting. We doubt that the FOMC has any desire of disap-pointing in the current environment, and expect a further cut by 50bp to 3.00% at WednesdayÂ’s meeting. However, if equity markets recover significantly ahead of the meeting, the risk is Comments are off for this post