{"id":28312,"date":"2012-03-17T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/17\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-17-march-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-03-17T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:07:00","slug":"monetary-policy-week-in-review-17-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/17\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-17-march-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Monetary Policy Week in Review &#8211; 17 March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntweetmeme_style = 'compact';\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><span>The past week in monetary policy saw 13 central banks reviewing policy settings, with 3 banks changing rates; Vietnam -100bps to 14.00%, Mozambique -125bps to 13.75%, and Norway -25bps to 1.50%. &nbsp;Meanwhile those that held rates unchanged were: Japan 0-0.10%, Russia 8.00%, USA 0-0.25%, Hong Kong 0.50%, Sri Lanka 7.50%, India 8.50%, Switzerland 0-0.25%, Rwanda 7.00%, Chile 5.00%, and Mexico 4.50%. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/03\/bank-of-japan-announces-2-trillion-yen.html\">Japan<\/a> also announced enhancements to its loan program, and Central Bank News launched a new central banking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/03\/central-bank-news-link-list-13-mar-2012.html\">links list<\/a> series.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8mIDtU1xH3Q\/T2Q94GR6hZI\/AAAAAAAAATs\/IrID5aYXvtE\/s1600\/Monetary+Policy+Rates+17+Mar+2012.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8mIDtU1xH3Q\/T2Q94GR6hZI\/AAAAAAAAATs\/IrID5aYXvtE\/s400\/Monetary+Policy+Rates+17+Mar+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 decisions from a number of emerging and frontier market economies; with the central banks of Thailand, Iceland, Nigeria, Egypt, Taiwan, and Colombia all meeting to review policy settings. &nbsp;Also due out next week is the Reserve Bank of Australia&#8217;s monetary policy meeting minutes, and the Bank of England&#8217;s monetary policy committee meeting minutes. &nbsp; There&#8217;s also speeches from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and ECB chairman Mario Draghi.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Mar-21<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>THB<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Thailand<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Bank of Thailand<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Mar-21<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>ISK<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Iceland<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Central Bank of Iceland<\/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>Mar-21<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>NGN<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Nigeria<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Central Bank of Nigeria<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Mar-22<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>EGP<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Egypt<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Central Bank of Egypt<\/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>Mar-22<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>TWD<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Taiwan<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Central Bank of Taiwan<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"66\">\n<div><span>Mar-23<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"76\">\n<div align=\"center\"><span>COP<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"119\">\n<div><span>Colombia<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td nowrap=\"\" width=\"203\">\n<div><span>Central Bank of Colombia<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\" \/><\/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\/03\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-17-march.html\">http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/03\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-17-march.html<\/a><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-6520909842392743914?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past week in monetary policy saw 13 central banks reviewing policy settings, with 3 banks changing rates; Vietnam -100bps to 14.00%, Mozambique -125bps to 13.75%, and Norway -25bps to 1.50%. &nbsp;Meanwhile those that held rates unchanged were: Japan 0-0.10%, Russia 8.00%, USA 0-0.25%, Hong Kong 0.50%, Sri Lanka 7.50%, India 8.50%, Switzerland 0-0.25%, Rwanda &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/17\/monetary-policy-week-in-review-17-march-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monetary Policy Week in Review &#8211; 17 March 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-28312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}