23 March 2020
Emily Nicol
,
Chris Scicluna
- With the Asian market mood downbeat, and central banks, including the BoJ and RBNZ, upping their interventions to stabilise the markets, fiscal policy in the US and Germany will dominate attention at the start of the week.
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19 March 2020
Emily Nicol
,
Chris Scicluna
- After the ECB’s night-time PEPP announcement, the BoJ upped its asset purchases, the RBA cut its cash rate and started yield curve control, and the Fed announced a new facility targeted at money market funds.
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19 March 2020
Chris Scicluna
- With questions increasingly raised about its commitment to counter the economic and financial impact of Covid-19, the ECB announced the PEPP, a new flexible €750bn asset purchase programme to try to mitigate fragmentation risks.
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18 March 2020
Emily Nicol
,
Chris Scicluna
- Efforts to calm the euro area bond market are in tatters this morning following some extraordinary inflammatory remarks from Austrian central bank governor Holzmann. BTPs are selling off, and euro area stocks are plunging, raising the need for new aggressive policy sooner rather than later.
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12 March 2020
Emily Nicol
,
Chris Scicluna
- The ECB’s Governing Council announcement is today’s main event. Not least given the emergency actions of the Fed and BoE, we expect the ECB to unveil a package of measures. Indeed, it will certainly disappoint markets if it fails to deliver at least a rate and anew lending facility.
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