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Central Banks Amend Interest Rate Plans

The divergence among global central banks that was supposed to drive financial markets in 2016 barely lasted a month.

By Craig Torres, Jeff Black, and Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg | Updated on February 05, 2016

Coming into the year, investors were figuring out how they would trade between two paths set on one side by monetary tightening from the Federal Reserve and, eventually, the Bank of England (BOE), and on the other by Bank of Japan and European Central Bank (ECB) easing.

Now, those investors are rethinking that divide as the U.S. and U.K. economies succumb to signs of a worsening global slowdown, forcing their central banks to rethink the interest-rate outlook. Any split now will be led by how much euro-area and Japanese authorities press ahead with looser policy.

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