Yield curve
Sovereign bond markets test ECB’s QE withdrawal plans
Investors see “huge risks” of turmoil in peripheral eurozone debt markets
BoJ launches unlimited 10-year sovereign bond purchases
Central bank steps in as investors put pressure on yield curve target, despite low inflation
BoJ ends some emergency measures
Central bank offers more funding for loans to small businesses, but halts some asset purchases
Fed pulls trigger on taper
Fed begins phasing out QE at initial rate of $15 billion per month
RBA drops yield curve control
Lowe acknowledges messy market conditions after yields broke free late last week
Hiking rates before asset sales may constrict credit – paper
Kansas City Fed research says raising the fed funds rate first may cause yield curve inversion
Majority of central banks have power to issue debt for monetary purposes
Central banks pointed to draining liquidity as a reason for issuing debt
Is the ECB’s strategy review enough?
The reformed framework may allow greater stimulus to tackle weak inflation expectations, but the Governing Council is already divided on what to do next
Negative yields decline in Dutch bond markets
Sovereign bonds account for majority of securities yielding negative returns
Surveillance and suptech innovation in central banks
Tony Sio, Nasdaq’s head of marketplace regulatory technology, explains the role market surveillance tools play in central banks’ suptech portfolios.
RBA adjusts yield curve control as economy recovers
Australia “no longer looking over a cliff”, says governor Philip Lowe
The RBI’s next big question: how to normalise monetary policy?
India’s central bank needs to plan an exit from its efforts to manage the ‘impossible trinity’
Inflation, Fed policy and emerging markets: the good, the bad and the ugly
Steve Kamin explores the global implications of rising inflation and interest rates in the US
Charles Goodhart on inflation targets, financial stability and the role of money
The LSE professor says inflation targets should have been 0%, the Fed’s move to AIT is a mistake, independence is under threat from inflation, big balance sheets support liquidity, AI can help supervisors and climate stress tests are unconvincing
IMF sees scope for unconventional monetary policy in Thailand
Yield curve control with forward guidance might be the best option for BoT, fund says
RBI doubles size of quantitative easing programme
Central bank readies additional 1.2 trillion rupee purchase programme as virus “dents” demand
ECB rate-setters ‘broadly agree’ with loose policy
Governing council members warned financing conditions were still tighter than in December 2020
RBI set to launch second round of asset purchases
Indian central bank seeks to curb borrowing costs amid severe Covid-19 outbreak
Israeli reserves reach new record high
Foreign currency purchases to offset shekel’s strength boost portfolio to $194 billion
Central banks remained net gold buyers in Q1
Rate of gold buying down on first quarter of 2020, as Hungary leads purchases
Fed must clarify future of QE, IMF says
IMF warns that rising longer-term Treasury yields could have major impact
ECB watchers say divisions on council could hamper decision-making
Analysts say central bank’s strategy of lower purchases could be tested later in 2021
Is the ECB implementing yield curve control?
The eurozone has adopted a hybrid system – lying somewhere between the Fed’s QE and the BoJ’s yield curve control – that targets wider financing conditions
BoJ adjusts easing measures amid market distortion fears
Central bank announces lending incentives and more flexibility in yield curve control and ETF buys