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Ready for Webcast of the #ECB press conference 3 April 2014?

Press conference following the meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank on 3 April 2014 at its premises in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, starting at 2:30 p.m.CET:

  • Introductory statement by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB.
  • Question and answer session. Registered journalists pose questions to Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, and to Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the EC

 

URL http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/tvservices/webcast/html/webcast_140403.en.html

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When will FED rise the funds rate ?

Before the weak employent report of the 10 Jan 2014, traders expected the fed funds rate to average 0.45% in June 2015. That estimate is based on price movements in the June 2015 fed funds futures contract. Put another way, traders saw a high probability that the Fed would start a rate hike campaign by mid-2015. Now the expected fed funds rate in June 2015 is 0.265%, meaning a low probability of a Fed rate hike by then. This is an especially dramatic shift from last September, when the expected fed funds rate in June 2015 was 0.92%, which meant futures traders thought the Fed would already be a few rounds into a rate hike campaign by mid-2015.

Remember FED officials have been hammering home the message that “tapering isn’t tightening.” 

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BANK OF GHANA RAISES BENCHMARK RATE BY 200BPS TO 18%

 

 

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