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Powell takes questions from the Senate For bank trade ideas, check out eFX Plus

Powell's prepared testimony to the Senate There's nothing new here. This is similar to what he said after the FOMC decision and that's no surprise since it was only 6 days ago.

Powell will deliver part 1 of Humphrey Hawkins in the Senate The Fed tends to be a punching bag when the economy is in bad shape or when they try something new. If I were a politician, I would certainly be trying to score points on a central bank buying junk bonds and calling a […]

Kuroda with a reminder that the hoarding will continue – Appropriate for BOJ to continue aggressive JGB purchases for now – BOJ may buy more bonds to keep yields low For bank trade ideas, check out eFX Plus

Comments by ECB executive board member, Fabio Panetta – But will consider them if necessary – Sees a prolonged period of very accommodative policy – Deploying the EU recovery fund is extremely urgent For some context, the idea of adding fallen angels into its PEPP stimulus was . However, the central bank ultimately steered clear [

It was never there in the first place – Expects inflation to stay in negative territory for now – Reaffirms that BOJ will maintain 2% inflation target – It is possible that new measures will be needed depending on the economy These are all token remarks just to reaffirm the current stance by the BOJ […]

BOJ governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, begins his press conference – Japanese economy is in extremely severe situation – Believes that the economy will recover – Economic outlook remains largely unchanged since April meeting So far, nothing out of the ordinary from Kuroda as he reaffirms what we already know of the BOJ and their stance re

Bank of Japan policy meeting over – statement out now  The Bank's special virus program to increase to around 110tln yen (from 75 tln) Full text here For bank trade ideas, check out eFX Plus

Reserve Bank of Australia monetary policy meeting minutes Comments on the Australian dollar from the minutes are not really notable: Headlines via Reuters (bolding is mine):

People's Bank of China  For bank trade ideas, check out eFX Plus