- Aussi Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens - happy with interest rates - no intervention;
- Swedish Riksbank Stefan Ingves - no problem with 16 year high on the trade weighted krona - no intervention, although the markets thinks this is a possible;
- BOE policy maker David Miles - need more stimulus - intervention through monetary policy;
- Bank of Korea - too much appreciation versus yen - good chance of won intervention;
- Philippine central bank - may employ "appropriate macroprudential measures to address any financial stability pressures that could results from further surges in capital inflows;
- Peru Central bank intervening;
- Thai baht - no intervention but talk about relative value versus rest of Asia;
- Brazil - less direct intervention and fight of capital inflows but inflation fighting now underway - issue of whether exchange rates will be a tool in this inflation fight.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Currency intervention - who is in and out?
The week has shown that there is an increase in active exchange rate intervention and talk about governments moving FX rates. This is just a short list but shows how the markets are being driven by active government action. The currency wars are being fought all over the world but not with the US.
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