With luck and slight of hand, Draghi restarts quantitative easing at European Central Bank
If it had come to a formal vote, there's a good chance that European Central Bank President Mario Draghi would have faced defeat in his efforts to revive quantitative easing at the central bank. But the bank doesn't usually hold a formal vote on a issue like this and...
The “other” central bank: Will the ECB restart quantitative easing on Thursday?
Will the European Central Bank revive its program of bond-buying when it meets on Thursday? The bank only ended this program of quantitative easing in December. The markets are currently pricing in a new program of 40 billion euros a month in bond purchases--plus a...
Central banks talk the markets up: Here we go again!
We've seen this play before: Financial markets start to tumble and central banks step in--not with actual stimulus quite yet but certainly with talk of stimulus. The European Central Bank and the German government took a turn today. Germany's Der Spiegel magazine...
Lagarde to run European Central Bank in what I see as positive move for global growth
Christine Lagarde will move from heading the International Monetary Fund to take over the helm at the European Central Bank from outgoing President Mario Draghi. I think this is a generally positive piece of news. First, putting Lagarde in the chair means that...
Don’t fight the Fed…and the Bank of Japan, and the People’s Bank, and the European Central Bank
Once upon a time--as late as 2018--the consensus thinking in financial markets was that the Federal Reserve was but the first central bank to raise interest rates. Other central banks, most notably the European Central Bank, (but not the Bank of Japan, which may never...
One more for the list: ECB starts countdown to euro decision on December 13
On December 13 the European Central Bank will decide whether to cap its $2.9 trillion program of bond buying as planned. The bank had decided that Europe's economy was strong enough for the central bank to wind down its purchases of bonds that have kept interest rates...
European Central Bank tries to have it both ways–which leaves nobody very happy
At today's meeting, the European Central Bank agreed to phase out its bond buying by the end of 2018 with purchases of $17.7 billion (15 billion euros) in each of the final three months of the year. (Bond buying will continue at the current rate of 30 billion euros a...
Moving on: With North Korea summit done, markets focus on Central Bank Week
The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un produced nothing of import, apparently meeting financial market expectations for "much ado about nothing," and all eyes on Wall Street have shifted to what I'm calling Central Bank...
Want to know where Treasury yields are headed in the next two weeks? Look to Europe
In the short-term, if bond traders and investors flee the euro and European bonds and pile into U.S. Treasuries, Treasury prices will up and yields go down despite any pick up in U.S. inflation. That would confound bond bears betting on falling prices and rising yields. So what are the odds of such a flight to the safety of U.S. Treasuries?
European Central Bank decides to split the difference on ending bond purchases
At its meeting today the European Central Bank decided to buy fewer bonds each month but for more months. Monthly purchases will be cut to 30 billion euros ($35 billion) from 60 billion euros beginning in January. But the bank will extend its bond purchases until September. Some observers had through the central bank would end purchases in January or March.
Notes You Need for October 6: oil and Nate, Apple iPhone 8 batteries, euro, rig count, German GDP, Amazon drug distribution, CVS, General Cable
In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. I launched this new feature on JubakAM.com on December 1. For example, “10:20 a.m.: Oil was up on speculation that Tropical Storm Nate would rise to the status of a hurricane and then hit the Gulf Cost, disrupting refineries and oil export platforms again But now oil is down on speculation that the storm won’t hit the Gulf Coast has hard as previous speculation suggested.”
