{"id":28857,"date":"2012-04-06T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/2012\/04\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-7-april-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-04-06T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T08:42:00","slug":"monetary-policy-week-in-review-7-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/04\/06\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-7-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Monetary Policy Week in Review &#8211; 7 April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News<br \/>\n<span>The past week in monetary policy saw interest rate decisions announced by 7 central banks around the world. &nbsp;Only Sri Lanka adjusted rates, adding 25bps to 7.75%. &nbsp;Those that held rates unchanged were: Australia 4.25%, Uganda 21.00%, EU 1.00%, Kenya 18.00%, Poland 4.50%, and UK 0.50%. &nbsp;The Bank of England held its asset purchase program (quantitative easing) unchanged at GBP 325 billion, and the European Central Bank made no changes to its SMP or LTRO.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QBjc4fQRs4g\/T36hrOkJ8QI\/AAAAAAAAAUE\/3ebERMGp-A8\/s1600\/Monetary+Policy+Rates+7+Apr+2012.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QBjc4fQRs4g\/T36hrOkJ8QI\/AAAAAAAAAUE\/3ebERMGp-A8\/s400\/Monetary+Policy+Rates+7+Apr+2012.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a>Looking at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/p\/central-bank-calendar.html\">central bank calendar<\/a><span><span>, the week ahead features interest rate decisions from the Bank of Japan, Bank Indonesia, and the Central Reserve Bank of Peru. &nbsp;Also out next week is the US Federal Reserve&#8217;s Beige Book report, the ECB&#8217;s monthly bulletin, and China puts out all its Q4 and March economic and key monetary data.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-10<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>JPY<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Japan<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Bank of Japan<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-12<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>IDR<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Indonesia<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Bank Indonesia<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-12<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>PEN<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Peru<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Central Reserve Bank of Peru<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><b>Source:<\/b>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><b>Article source:&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/04\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-7-april.html\">http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/04\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-7-april.html<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/03\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-17-march.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span><span><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><b>IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Central Bank News website is presently for sale, if you are interested please click through for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/03\/central-bank-news-website-goes-up-for.html\">more details<\/a>.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-3288534141753482226?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News The past week in monetary policy saw interest rate decisions announced by 7 central banks around the world. &nbsp;Only Sri Lanka adjusted rates, adding 25bps to 7.75%. &nbsp;Those that held rates unchanged were: Australia 4.25%, Uganda 21.00%, EU 1.00%, Kenya 18.00%, Poland 4.50%, and UK 0.50%. &nbsp;The Bank of England held &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/04\/06\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-7-april-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monetary Policy Week in Review &#8211; 7 April 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}