A Fed merger approval arrives with a separate statement from Governor Barr
The Board approved Peoples Bancorp's acquisition of Citizens National Corporation. The order is unremarkable; the attached statement is the part that is not.
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The Fed would route stablecoin reserves into T-bills. The BoJ stops naming a rate and lets bidders reveal it. One authority makes a holder; the other gives up a price.
Banxico's calendar gives eight dates and reserves the right to act on others
Eight scheduled announcements in 2026, Thursdays at 13:00 CST, minutes two weeks later - and an explicit reservation to change stance outside those dates if extraordinary events arise.
The BoJ has published Japan's end-June 2026 returns for both BIS international banking statistics
Locational and consolidated banking statistics for Japan go to the BIS for aggregation into the global series that measure cross-border claims, the main lens on dollar funding outside the United States.
Four central banks published no decision today and said more than a decision would have
A BoE speech names the conditional, an ECB blog measures how much speeches move markets, the BoJ lists its five core measures, and the RBI runs two operations facing opposite ways.
RBI ran a 3-day VRRR auction and a 34,000 crore underwriting auction on the same day
The 25 September press releases show the Reserve Bank absorbing liquidity through the LAF while underwriting a government security sale, with the previous day's overnight VRRR result alongside.
ECB decomposes the AI-era rise in US valuations into earnings, discount rates and risk premia
An Economic Bulletin box reads the run-up through a dividend discount model and notes S&P 500 earnings growth again outperforming expectations in this year's earnings seasons.
The BoJ publishes five separate core inflation measures, two business days after each CPI print
Staff estimates cover CPI excluding institutional factors plus four distribution-based indicators: trimmed mean, weighted median, mode and the diffusion index of rising and falling items.
ECB blog says between-meeting speeches move markets as much as the decisions do
A signed post uses euro area market reactions to both formal announcements and inter-meeting communication to measure the effects of monetary policy on inflation and unemployment.
Lombardelli says policy is already leaning against persistence and will tighten further if needed
The BoE deputy governor sets out the framework the MPC is using to judge how recent energy price increases feed into inflationary pressure, and states the conditional plainly.