Tag: Federal Reserves
Finally US’s Federal Reserves Cut the Rate Since 2008
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - After get pressured from United States (US) President Donald Trump, the Federal Reserve (Fed) finally cut its benchmark rate by a quarter-point to...
Morning Briefing: The Fed Its Expecting Cut Interest Rate 25 Basis...
JAKARTA (The InsiderStories) - Good Morning! Today at 2.30 pm Eastern Time, United States (US) Federal Open Committee Meeting will announce its decision on the monetary...
Morning Briefing: Indonesia Announces the Realization Investment Today
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – Good morning! Indonesian Coordinating Investment Board will announce the realization investment for second quarter (2Q) of 2019. In the 1Q of...
Morning Briefing: Indonesia Push the Gov’t Programs, Creates More Friendly Policies
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – Good morning! President Joko Widodod keep pushing the government program to bring more foreign exchange revenues to Indonesia. Yesterday, he announced a planned...
US Fed Maintains FFR, Sees a Room to Rate Cut
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - United States' Federal Open Meeting Committee (FOMC) maintained its federal funds rates at 2.25 – 2.5 percent at the latest statement released on...
Powel Hints to Slice Fed Fund Rate Next Month
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - The Federal Reserves (Fed) chair Jerome Powell said that the downside risks to the United States (US) economy have escalated recently,...
Insight: US Monetary Policy’s Effect to the Global Economy
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - The global economy has move to its slowest pace in three years time. While, international trade and investment have been weaker...
Weekly Briefing: Political Tension Heats Up in Indonesia
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! Political tension heats up in Indonesia ahead the announcement of the winners of 2019 presidential election. Starting today, an...
Morning Briefing: Trump Asks The Fed to Slash Rate
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! United States (US) President Donald Trump reiterated another intervention to Federal Reserves (The Fed) policy. Through twitter, he asked...
United States’ GDP Revised Down to 2.2% in Q4 2018
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – The United States (US) economic growth has been revised to 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2018, far below...
Unites States Deficit Widened to US$234B in February
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – United States (US) experienced the biggest monthly budget deficit to US$234 billion, amid a 20 percent decline in corporate tax revenues and...
Indonesia’s Foreign Capital Inflows US$6.3B in 1Q 2019
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – Bank Indonesia (BI) noted that foreign capital inflows worth of Rp74.4 trillion (US$6.3 billion) entering Indonesia in the first quarter (1Q)...
Powell: US’S Interest Rates Unchanged This Year
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – The Federal Reserves (Fed) maintains a target range for the federal fund level at 2.25-2.5 percent during the March 19-20 meeting,...
Weekly Briefing: 70 Died on Sentani’s Flood, Deathly Earthquake Hits Lombol
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! The flash floods that occurred in Sentani, Papua until Sunday afternoon (03/17) resulted in 70 deaths, Meteorology and Geophysics...
Indonesian Rupiah will Strenghten in Long Round, says BI
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – Bank Indonesia (BI) is optimistic that the Rupiah could be stronger than the previous year. Although the local currency fell 0.21 percent today...
Morning Briefing: US’s Fed to be Patient in Deciding Rates
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! Federal Reserves (Fed) Governor Jerome Powell stated in front of United States (US) Senate Banking Committee, that his institution...
Indonesian Market Gets Foreign Inflows US$3B in February
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – Bank Indonesia (BI) noted that the inflows of foreign capital to the Indonesian market until Feb. 21, 2019 reached Rp 45.9...
FFR Tends to be Dovish, BI Maintained Interest Rate
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Board governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) decided to maintain a 7 day Reverse Repo Rate (BI 7-DRR) at 6 percent, a...
Morning Briefing: US’s FOMC Divided on the Further FFR Hikes in...
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – Good morning! United States' Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes meeting showed the member divided wether to raise Federal Reserves fund...
US’s Federal Reserves Maintains Interest Rates, Further Tightening Reduces
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - United States (US) Federal Reserve decided to maintain interest rates and promised to be patient in terms of raising borrowing costs further, said...
Morning Briefing: Indonesian Balance of Payment Surplus US$5B
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – Good morning! Bank Indonesia (BI) reported that in the fourth quarter (4Q) of 2018, balance of payment (BoP) surplus US$5 billion...
Morning Briefing: Indonesian Gov’t Consider to Scraps Corporate Income Tax
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! Ministry of Finance asses the possibility to scraps corporate income tax to be equal with other countries. Its expected...
Weekly Briefing: Market Welcomes US-China Trade Tension Talks
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! Indonesian Rupiah is on the move with highest hike among other Asian currencies. The local currencies against US Dollar...
Weekly Briefing: Santa Rally, Possibly More Brighter Days for Rupiah and...
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! Indonesian financial market is getting Christmas present. Rupiah against Dollar closed strengthening 0.13 percent to 14,480, while the Jakarta Composite...
Morning Briefing: Reference Rate Announcement Leads Market into Negative Territory
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! The Rupiah and Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) have both taken another hit. This is in part due to the...
BI Responds Fed’s Hawkish by Maintaining the Policy Rate
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Bank Indonesia (BI) kept the 7-day Reverse Repo (BI-7DRR) rate at 6 percent followed the Federal Reserves (Fed) monetary action. The...
Morning Briefing: US Bewildered ahead of Fed Rate Announcement
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! The Federal Open Market Committee will announce the United State' (US) rate decision today. Fear over Federal Reserve (Fed) officials'...
Morning Briefing: Rupiah, JCI, Advance amid Lower Fed Rate Projection
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! The Rupiah upswung by 0.83 percent to 14,408 per US dollar, affected by lower United States’ Federal Reserves (Fed) rate...
Morning Briefing: BI Rate Announces Today, Rupiah Potentially Strengthens Again
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) — Good morning! Bank of Indonesia (BI) will announce its 7-Day Reverse Repurchase Rate (7-DRR rate) today. Some analysts predicted the central bank...
US’s Fed Holds the Rate, Others to Follow
JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 2 to 2-1/4 percent...