The Tankan is a survey conducted by the Bank of Japan Woeful results, hitting multi year lows from manufacturers and non-manufacturers alike As part of the survey firms are asked on their outlook for coming months, also a bleak picture, as you'd expect given the virus outbreak impact:
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Fed's Mester says an unemployment rate above 10% is feasible
Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester more to come ForexLive
ECB's Vasle says Bank could implement new measures if the crisis persists
European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Boštjan Vasle – Governor, Banka Slovenije Nothing further at this stage, but Vasle saying the European Central Bank is not of ammo.
Fed's Daly says she suspects the US is already in recession
Comments from the SF Fed President Some amazing deduction from the SF Fed President given that Wall Street economists are the worst quarter in history. ForexLive
Fed launches temporary repo facility with foreign central banks
Fed launches another round of swap lines The reason the Fed is establishing these swap lines is because they don't want foreign creditors to sell US assets right now. So the swap lines allow them to get US dollars without having to dump Treasuries or other USD-denominated assets.
ECB's Holzmann: Decision on coronabonds is up to governments
Comments by ECB governing council member, Robert Holzmann – The idea behind PEPP was to make liquidity rapidly available – The rules for PEPP will be set in the future ForexLive
BOJ raises frequency of bond purchases for April
The BOJ raises its frequency of bond purchases for next month across four different maturities ForexLive The sweeping changes are across the maturities from <1-year to 10-year JGBs, with tweaks to the frequency across those tenors as well as amounts purchased for some.
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PBOC sets USD/ CNY reference rate for today at 7.0851
People's Bank of China – injects 20 bn yuan into the banking system via 7-day reverse repos Earlier from China: ForexLive
PBOC adviser says setting a GDP target may force a 'flood-like' stimulus
Giving China proxy trades (such as AUD) a boost People's Bank of China adviser Ma Jun quoted in state media: – setting GDP target may force China to resort to flood-like stimulus China is emerging (economically) from the shut down, this sort of stimulus talk is going to flow through as a positive input for […]