{"id":29043,"date":"2012-04-13T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/2012\/04\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-14-april-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T21:35:00","slug":"monetary-policy-week-in-review-14-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/04\/13\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-14-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Monetary Policy Week in Review &#8211; 14 April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News<br \/>\n<span>The past week in monetary policy saw 12 central banks announce interest rate decisions. &nbsp;Those that cut rates were: Vietnam -100bps to 13.00% and Mozambique -25bps to 13.50%, while Ghana increased +100bps to 14.50%. &nbsp;Those that held interest rates unchanged were: Russia 8.00%, Japan 0.10%, Armenia 8.00%, Indonesia 5.75%, Fiji 0.50%, Pakistan 12.00%, Korea 3.25%, Serbia 9.50%, and Peru 4.25%. &nbsp;Also making headlines in monetary policy was an announced monetary policy tightening by the Singapore Monetary Authority, a 150 basis point cut to the RRR by Croatia, and selected reductions of the RRR by the People&#8217;s Bank of China.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9cjGuwqrUD0\/T4iaC9cXC3I\/AAAAAAAAAUM\/y0n3Gy9RdAc\/s1600\/Monetary+Policy+Rates+14+Apr+2012.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9cjGuwqrUD0\/T4iaC9cXC3I\/AAAAAAAAAUM\/y0n3Gy9RdAc\/s400\/Monetary+Policy+Rates+14+Apr+2012.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><span>Looking at the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/p\/central-bank-calendar.html\">central bank calendar<\/a><span><span>, the week ahead features monetary policy decisions due to be announced by two major emerging markets; Brazil and India (China could also feature, after its weaker economic numbers announced last week). Elsewhere the major banks set to meet are Canada (CAD), Sweden (SEK), and Turkey (TRY). &nbsp;Monetary policy meeting minutes are also due from the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of England.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-17<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>INR<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>India<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Reserve Bank of India<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-17<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>CAD<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Canada<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Bank of Canada<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-18<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>BRL<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Brazil<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Banco Central do Brasil<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-18<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>SEK<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Sweden<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Bank of Sweden<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-18<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>TRY<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Turkey<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Central Bank of Turkey<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Apr-19<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>PHP<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Philippines<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Central Bank of Philippines<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\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-14-april.html\">http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/04\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-14-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><br \/><span><span><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><b>See the latest daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/04\/central-bank-news-link-list-13-april.html\">Central Bank News Link List<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-4156654650208617842?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News The past week in monetary policy saw 12 central banks announce interest rate decisions. &nbsp;Those that cut rates were: Vietnam -100bps to 13.00% and Mozambique -25bps to 13.50%, while Ghana increased +100bps to 14.50%. &nbsp;Those that held interest rates unchanged were: Russia 8.00%, Japan 0.10%, Armenia 8.00%, Indonesia 5.75%, Fiji 0.50%, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/04\/13\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-14-april-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monetary Policy Week in Review &#8211; 14 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-29043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29043","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=29043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}