In Focus

  • Week InAdvance: October 14, 2019

    • Monday, October 14, 2019

    Mon Oct 14 Canadian markets closed for Thanksgiving holiday. US bond market and federal government offices closed for Columbus Day. | Tue Oct 15 IMF and World Bank annual meetings. | Wed Oct 16 CFTC meets on margin rules for uncleared swaps. | Thu Oct 17 G20 finmins in DC. | Fri Oct 18 US tariffs on billions of dollars of EU products, including Scotch whiskeys, French wine and cheese, take effect.

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  • Week InReview: October 11, 2019

    • Friday, October 11, 2019

    Fed’s latest move needs a name. QE, or not QE? That is the question bedeviling the monetary-policy peanut gallery after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced on Tuesday that the central bank had decided to increase its purchases of short-term Treasurys, but that the move shouldn’t be considered a form of quantitative easing. “This is not QE. In no sense is this QE,” Powell said. -- The Wall Street Journal

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  • Week InAdvance: October 7, 2019

    • Monday, October 7, 2019

    Mon Oct 7 Nobel Prize week opens in Stockholm. | Tue Oct 8 New IMF managing director delivers curtain raiser speech in DC. | Wed Oct 9 FOMC minutes released. | Thu Oct 10 US-China trade talks in DC. | Fri Oct 11 Chinese president & Indian PM meet in Tamil Nadu.

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