{"id":29736,"date":"2012-05-18T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/2012\/05\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-19-may-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T22:02:00","slug":"monetary-policy-week-in-review-19-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/05\/18\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-19-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Monetary Policy Week in Review &#8211; 19 May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News<br \/>\n<span>The past week in monetary policy was relatively quiet on the interest rate front, with just Iceland changing rates; adding 50 basis points to 5.50%, and Chile&#8217;s central bank holding its interest rate unchanged at 5.00%. &nbsp;Outside of monetary policy decisions there was monetary policy committee meeting minutes out from Australia and the US. &nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rba.gov.au\/monetary-policy\/rba-board-minutes\/2012\/01052012.html\">Reserve Bank of Australia<\/a> explained some points about it&#8217;s recent 50bp rate cut, meanwhile the US <a href=\"http:\/\/federalreserve.gov\/monetarypolicy\/fomcminutes20120425.htm\">Federal Reserve FOMC<\/a> voiced doubts on the strength of the recovery. &nbsp;The Bank of England also released its regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/publications\/Pages\/inflationreport\/ir1202.aspx\">inflation report<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-sz5JPX08KhA\/T7bE0NhezMI\/AAAAAAAAAVQ\/4WI8_xxUllU\/s1600\/Monetary+Policy+Rates+19+May+2012.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-sz5JPX08KhA\/T7bE0NhezMI\/AAAAAAAAAVQ\/4WI8_xxUllU\/s400\/Monetary+Policy+Rates+19+May+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 is also scheduled to be a relatively quiet week with just the Bank of Japan and South African Reserve Banks set to meet. &nbsp;Both will surely keep rates unchanged, but the question mark would hang over the Bank of Japan&#8217;s asset purchase program. &nbsp;Outside of that, the Bank of England is set to release its Monetary Policy Committee meeting minutes. &nbsp;Europe and China have the much watched flash PMI economic indicators due out later in the week, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbnz.govt.nz\/\">New Zealand<\/a> has inflation expectations data and the annual Government budget due out in the week ahead.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>May-23<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>May-24<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>ZAR<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>South Africa<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>South African Reserve Bank<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><span>Source:<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><span><span><b>Article source:&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/05\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-19-may.html\">http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/05\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-19-may.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-4529591195490620325?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News The past week in monetary policy was relatively quiet on the interest rate front, with just Iceland changing rates; adding 50 basis points to 5.50%, and Chile&#8217;s central bank holding its interest rate unchanged at 5.00%. &nbsp;Outside of monetary policy decisions there was monetary policy committee meeting minutes out from Australia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/05\/18\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-19-may-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monetary Policy Week in Review &#8211; 19 May 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-29736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736","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=29736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}