Rates: Up In America, Down In China

Carlos Casanova, Senior Economist, UBP

15-Apr-22 07:00

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Central Banks are fodder for today's discussion with Carlos Casanova, Senior Economist, UBP, with looming US rate hikes that are juxtaposed with expectations that China's PBOC is expected to cut a key policy interest rate to deal with slowing growth. Image credit: Shutterstock.com

Produced by: Mike Gong

Presented by: Shazana Mokhtar, Tan Chen Li, Khoo Hsu Chuang

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Categories: trends and forecasts, markets

Tags: us rate hike, central banks, inflation, pepople's bank of china (pboc), bank of japan, singapore,

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