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Developed Market Central Bank Watch - September 2024

September 04, 2024

Central Bank Tracker: The number of rate cutters continued to grow in August

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  • The gradual swing in developed market (DM) monetary policy continued in August. Last month, the Bank of England, Sweden’s Riksbank, and New Zealand’s RBNZ made three more interest rate cuts, bringing the total number of cuts by the major 12 DM central banks The Conference Board follows regularly to nine.
  • 50% of DM central banks are now in a rate-cutting cycle. The Bank of England and New Zealand’s RBNZ increases the ranks of rate cutters to six. Meanwhile, Sweden’s Riksbank became the third repeat rate cutter, further evidence that we are moving into an environment of repeated and prolonged rate cuts. Lower financing costs and less restrictive financial conditions should contribute to improved developed world growth prospects in 2025.
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