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The Bank of England is certain to raise interest rates again at its delayed September meeting on Thursday, although the magnitude of the hike (50 vs. 75 basis points) is more of an open question.
This week in the foreign exchange market is all about central bank announcements, with this evening’s FOMC meeting the most important of the lot.
The Federal Reserve received an unpleasant surprise last week, in the form of a hotter-than-expected inflation number that showed no hint that price pressures are abating.
The ECB massive 75bp hike, followed up by hawkish comments from the usual "sources", sent the common currency soaring against most of its global peers, dragging along all other European currencies, while the Japanese yen ended up again at the bottom of the rankings, dragged down by the Bank of Japan insistence on remaining the last dovish holdout among the G10.
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The world's central bankers annual meeting at Jackson Hole delivered an unmistakably hawkish message, led by Fed´s chair Powell in a very short and clear speech.
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A dismal set of business activity PMI numbers out of the US sent the dollar sharply lower on Tuesday afternoon, with the greenback reversing its gains from earlier in the week against most of its major counterparts.
The euro crashed back through parity against the US dollar on Monday, with ‘risk off’ trading and concerns over rising energy prices in Europe causing the common currency to be one of the worst performing major currencies in the world yesterday.
US bond yields have now retraced the fall that followed the positive inflation report from the week prior.
The dollar was broadly stronger against most currencies on Thursday, as investors appeared to have a rare change of heart over this week’s FOMC meeting minutes.
Another surprise to the upside in this morning’s UK inflation report, a trend that we have become all too familiar with in the past year or so, elicited a rather muted response in currency markets.
