Building on continued progress in improving the effectiveness of its inflation targeting framework, BOG remains committed to maintaining an
appropriate monetary policy stance to bring inflation down toward its medium - term objective.
The benchmark 10 - year Treasury note fell from a more than four - year high to below 3 percent after the European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged and reaffirmed its
stimulative monetary policy stance.
In our March statement we indicated that our
current monetary policy stance remained appropriate to achieve our 2 per cent inflation target on a sustainable basis by around the middle of 2018, whereas US authorities have now begun to tighten.
It finishes by noting that with the very accommodative
monetary policy stances likely to continue, it may be some time before the modus operandi of central banking in place prior to the crisis is seen again.
Thus, the growing divergence
of monetary policy stances between the US and Eurozone should keep the pressure on the EUR / USD exchange rate.
In their efforts to add power to their
easy monetary policy stances, central banks have sought to offer «guidance» on their future behaviour.
Because it allows a central bank to expand its balance sheet arbitrarily without unduly altering its
overall monetary policy stance, a floor system is a central bank bureaucrat's dream - come - true.
Czech central bank first in Europe to hike rates While the Bank of England and the European Central Bank have been contemplating shifting to less
accommodative monetary policy stances, the Czech central bank took action on Thursday, raising its main policy rate from 0.05 % to 0.25 %, its first hike since 2008.
The most recent ECB minutes indicated that policymakers could revisit
their monetary policy stance «early this year.»
European markets closed lower on Thursday after the European Central Bank announced it would keep
its monetary policy stance unchanged.
The Bank of Japan decided to hold off on changing
its monetary policy stance, at its latest meeting, following the European Central Bank's decision to hold its own interest rates steady Thursday.
What have changed are expectations about
the monetary policy stance that would be appropriate in order to achieve those outcomes.
EUNICE YOON, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: A debate within the Fed over whether officials will need to change their language, showing the Central Bank moving from an accommodative
monetary policy stance to one that is neutral or perhaps even restraining economic growth.
Only as we became confident that the recovery was securely established, would I expect
our monetary policy stance to evolve to ensure that it remained appropriate to achievement of our objective: maximum sustainable employment in the context of price stability.
In contrast to the Federal Reserve, the ECB loosened
its monetary policy stance further.
This sharp retreat in risk appetite reflected growing uncertainty about the global economic outlook and
monetary policy stance, as well as increased geopolitical tensions.
That's why an accommodative
monetary policy stance is still needed to foster a longer economic recovery and to keep eliminating slack, we believe.
Major Asian indexes were mixed at midday in Asia on Wednesday, as investors adopted a wait - and - see mood ahead of a meeting of the US Federal Reserve set for Wednesday afternoon US Eastern time, when the FOMC will announce
its monetary policy stance on a press conference.
The Fed now has its task cut out for it as it prepares to meet next week to discuss
its monetary policy stance.
The US Fed's
monetary policy stance is also described as likely to be expansionary for some time yet.
This «Great Inflation,» as it is commonly known, was triggered by a combination of adverse supply shocks (notably the 1973 and 1979 oil shocks) and an accommodative
monetary policy stance, which appears consistent with upward revisions of the Fed's inflation target.
Working in the other direction, the investment of the US dollar proceeds of foreign exchange intervention by Asian central banks was supportive of the US Treasury market, as was the very wide spread between 10 - year Treasury yields and the Fed funds rate, particularly in light of the Fed's reaffirmation of its intention to maintain an accommodative
monetary policy stance (Table 5, Graph 12).
While price stability features very prominently in debating any central bank's
monetary policy stance, financial stability is clearly emerging as an equally important factor.
A «neutral and prudent»
monetary policy stance is further backed by the recent rate hikes in China together with regulation tightening.
Recent evidence suggests that the Federal Reserve's
monetary policy stance, as gauged by changes in its policy stance (i.e., an increased or decreased target for the federal funds rate), provides useful information that can be effectively used to improve the allocation decision.
The Federal Reserve also recently affirmed its accommodative
monetary policy stance, noting that it will keeping the federal funds target rate at the 0 - 25 basis point range, and asset purchases (QE3) totaling $ 85 billion per month ($ 40 billion in MBS and $ 45 billion in Treasury securities).