Next Week’s Menu: December 27, 2025 – January 2, 2026 December 26, 2025 Central Banks: A summary of the December Bank of Japan policy review and minutes from this month’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting will be published. Those reviews respectively resulted in a 25-basis point interest rate hike in Japan’s case and a 25-basis…
Egyptian Central Bank Rate Cut December 26, 2025 Monetary officials at the Central Bank of Egypt implemented their fifth interest rate cut of 2025 and signaled that more downward moves next year will be likely. The new main operating rate of 20.5% will be flanked by an overnight lending rate of 21.0% and an overnight…
Day After Christmas Remains Subdued December 26, 2025 The Christmas holiday has been extended in many countries, including most of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Japan was open both Thursday and Friday. Although President Trump has authorized that today will be a federal holiday this year, most banks plan…
Next Week’s Menu: December 20-26, 2025 December 19, 2025 Central Banks: Monthly fixing of China’s Loan Prime Rates. The Bank of Japan will publish Board minutes, and BOJ Governor Ueda delivers a speech. Holidays and Special Event: Most markets, including those in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Ireland and…
Russian Interest Rate Cut December 19, 2025 The Bank of Russia has cut its interest rate by another 50 basis points, but the level remains high at 16.0% versus on-year CPI inflation of 6.6% in November, which was a 26-month low. “Proinflationary risks still prevail over disinflationary ones in the mid-term horizon.” The central bank…
Bank of Japan Rate Hike December 19, 2025 As widely anticipated, the Bank of Japan implemented its first interest rate increase in 11 months. At 0.75%, the short-term deposit facility has attained its highest level in in just over three decades. Today’s fourth increase since March 2024 won unanimous approval by the central bank board…
Another Interest Rate Cut by the Bank of Mexico December 18, 2025 A cycle of a thirteen interest rate cuts by the Bank of Mexico began a year and a half ago from a peak of 11.25%, with five initial reductions of 25 basis points, then four larger 50-basis point moves and after than a…
Bank of England Cuts Interest Rate but Leaves Future Moves in Doubt December 18, 2025 Among the many central bank interest rate announcements made today, the most surprising came from the Bank of England‘s. The rate cut of 25 basis points to 3.75% — a low not seen since January 2023 — met expectations, but…
Attention Shared by Central Bank Decisions & Year-end Data Deluge December 17, 2025 The dollar rose overnight, led by gains of 0.5% against yen and sterling. The U.S. currency also appreciated 0.2% against the Australian currency and Mexican peso and 0.1% relative to the Swiss franc, euro, kiwi and won. Gold is 0.7% stronger, whereas…
Business World Plows On In Spite of Dystopic Newsfeed December 15, 2025 (161) The coming week will be the last one of 2025 in which financial markets are not heavily affected by year-end factors. A heavy menu of economic data releases, including belated U.S. ones due to the government shutdown. Oftentimes particularly in the early…