Heads up: Fed’s Bullard to speak on monetary policy later in the day 5 (1)

After his now infamous remarks last week here, be sure to keep your eyes and ears peeled on more Fedspeak in the weeks ahead. Let’s see if Bullard will stick with his guns later today. When you factor in all his comments in the past few years, the guy is unreal to say the least.

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Fed’s George: Too soon to say if March would see 50 bps rate hike 5 (1)

What we have to do is be systematicIt is always preferable to go gradual, I’d be hard-pressed to say we have got to get to neutral really fastBut strong inflation and market pricing paves the groundwork for discussionIf we get to March and the data says we should talk about it, then 50 bps rate hike

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Kremlin says if Ukraine renounced joining NATO, it would significantly address concerns 0 (0)

Does not see Ukraine envoy’s comments on NATO as an official change in positionSays Putin and Germany’s Scholz will discuss Ukraine, security guaranteesWell, I don’t think the remarks by Prystaiko matter too much because he walked back on them later on here. In any case, there isn’t much of a new de

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Russia ready to open fire on foreign ships that illegally enter its territorial waters 5 (1)

But any decision to open fire would only be taken at the ‚highest level’The first few words of the headline i.e. „open fire“ were a bit spicy, not gonna lie. But this seems to be Russia just standing their ground in case there is interference from other parties. I doubt that this is a new developmen

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FX option expiries for 14 February 10am New York cut 0 (0)

Just one large one to take note of for the day, as highlighted in bold.That being for AUD/USD at 0.7100-10 but at the moment, it is hard to see expiry levels matter too much. It’s all about the market mood and risk sentiment is the key driver amid Russia-Ukraine tensions.As such, don’t expect the

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