NZ CPI printed close to the RBNZ’s forecasts. BNZ believes that the data won’t change the central bank’s view as it also didn’t alter its own view of 50bp of easing in February. It sees a greater ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) will announce its latest monetary policy decision this Friday, with expectations that it will move ...

Given the very high correlations between NZ and Australian CPIs and their major components, there is information to be gained ...

European natural gas trended lower on Wednesday to be down 2.5% to EUR 48.80 just off the intraday low of EUR 48.51. It is now close to unchanged in January. Futures prices are over EUR 48.50 for ...

GDP YoY print of +1.2% was below expectations of +1.4% and a contraction from Q3 result of +1.5% delivering an annualized return for 2024 of 2.0%. The original estimate for 2024 GDP expansion was +2.1 ...

In signs that the Central Bank could be on hold for 2025, Bank Negara (‘BNM”) held rates at 3.00% where it has been since May 2023. Of the 24 respondents on the BBG survey, none expected a cut in the ...

NZD/USD fell 0.28% to 0.5663 on Wednesday, it did recover some of the earlier weakness following a mixed data CPI that caused the NZD to underperform all other G10 currencies early. Looking at ...

Ahead of next week's Fed decision, we've published our summary of FOMC participant communications since the December FOMC ...

CPI data for the first half of January are due tomorrow, with the market expecting the headline rate to fall further to 3.72% y/y, after dipping below 4% for the first time since early 2021 in ...

Europe is on course for the smallest seaborne diesel imports in seven years, according to Bloomberg.This is just as ...

The Dáil Eireann has adjourned until tomorrow (23 Jan) after a day of political chaos amid efforts to officially confirm Micheál Martin as taoiseach (PM). The process to appoint Martin and then ...

The unplanned outage at EdF’s 660MW Heysham reactor in the UK has been extended one day until 23 January 13:30GMT, remit data showed. The outage started on 15 January.