In the meantime, gold continues to find support
from global monetary policy and low to negative government bond yields.
These challenges include the persistent strength of the Canadian dollar, which is being influenced by safe - haven flows and spillovers
from global monetary policy.
Not exact matches
The Fed raised its key overnight lending rate in December for the first time in nearly a decade, but it has backed away
from further
monetary policy tightening this year largely due to a
global economic slowdown and financial market volatility.
Thus, when I reiterate that U.S.
monetary policy is data dependent, that includes not just the information gleaned
from important economic releases such as payroll employment and retail sales, but also how financial market conditions react to economic and financial market developments in the
global economy.
While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate
from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for
global coordination and greater use of fiscal
policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal -
monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic
policy challenge for the next decade.
Finally, as a recent report
from the Committee on the
Global Financial System (CGFS) describes in detail, central bank
monetary policies have a clear impact on the volume of repo.
Concerns about
global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize
monetary policy from crisis - era levels.
By Claire Milhench (Reuters)- Investors raised their equity holdings in April
from March's five - year lows, taking the view that the
global stock market rally will continue as long as central banks maintain their loose
monetary policies, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
Another lesson we've learned
from the
global experience is that while unconventional
monetary policies can help stimulate the economy, there may be limits to their impact.
The Bank of Canada is applying lessons
from the
global financial crisis as it updates its framework for the use of unconventional
monetary policy measures, Governor Stephen S. Poloz said.
The weaker overall outlook for
global economic growth could prove the decisive factor in persuading the ECB to further ease
monetary policy in a concerted effort to stop the eurozone's recovery
from stalling.
A moderating
global growth dynamic and very easy
monetary policy abroad are also forces keeping the central bank
from initiating more rate normalization.
The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition
from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader
global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that
monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.
From early May to mid June, domestic bond yields followed
global yields lower on concerns about potential deflationary pressures in the US and related expectations of easier
monetary policy abroad and in Australia.
Tighter financial regulations, strikingly synchronized
global monetary policy and new competition
from financial upstarts are hitting trading at banks like Goldman especially hard.
As central banks move away
from ultra-loose
monetary policy, and the
global economic expansion matures, bond fund managers will need to ensure their portfolios draw on a truly diverse range of sources of return and carefully consider portfolio risk if they are to generate yield in the current market environment.
May's edition looks at — amongst other things — strong performance
from global equities (even stronger
from EM), the Russia stand - off, good data
from the US, the negative spiral in China's real estate market and European
monetary policy.
The United States, for example, can not be isolated
from the rest of the world, if it is to keep the dollar at the centre of the
global monetary policy.
This has caused the yield curve to flatten, but with
global reflationary trends and the broad shift
from monetary to fiscal
policy, the yield curve may again steepen.
With divergent
global monetary policy, the US ending quantitative easing just as Europe enters phase one, there has been a trend among investors to shift away
from US equity ETFs towards non-US equity ETFs.
James McCormack,
Global Head of Sovereign Ratings at Fitch Ratings, discusses the outlook for global markets and monetary policy from various central
Global Head of Sovereign Ratings at Fitch Ratings, discusses the outlook for
global markets and monetary policy from various central
global markets and
monetary policy from various central banks.