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Reuters reports, citing sources familiar with the matter ForexLive According to the sources cited in the report, the argument made is that the OMT was designed to help individual countries, and not for the whole bloc.

Fed chair, Jerome Powell, speaks on NBC Today – Effectively, every $1 of Treasury backstop can support $10 worth in Fed loans – Fed ready to step in whenever credit is not flowing ForexLive

The ECB has started bond purchases under its €750 billion pandemic emergency purchase program (PEPP) – Greek debt eligible for PEPP but there is no 'catch-up' buying ForexLive

Comments by ECB governing council member, Vitas Vasilauskas ForexLive

Comments by new BOJ board member, Seiji Adachi – Hard to say when virus impact will hit a bottom – Virus outbreak has dealt severe blow to Japan, global economies ForexLive

The ECB is bending the rules as it goes all out to deal with the economic fallout from the virus outbreak pandemic emergency purchase program ForexLive Essentially, what the Eurozone debt crisis failed to bring out in the ECB, the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak just did.

The Singapore central bank will be holding auctions tomorrow and on Monday ForexLive

People's Bank of China     ForexLive

Reserve Bank of Australia quantitative easing purchase operation  – 3bn AUD – Australian government bonds – maturities May 2021 to April 2024 ForexLive

<p>US initial jobless claims surged to 3283k in the week ending March 21, up from prior wee’s 282k. That’s the highest level on record. Four-week moving average of initial claims jumped 766k to 998k. Continuing claims rose 101k to 1.803m in the week ending March 14. Four week moving average of continuing claims rose 27.5k [&hellip