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‘Mario Draghi was there for the ECB while the ECB seems to be there for Christine Lagarde,’ one staff member writes in major survey.

The EUR/USD is shuffling its feet on Monday as traders take the opportunity to gather themselves up ahead of this week’s hectic showing from multiple central banks across the globe.

A multiyear bull market in the S&P 500 might be just around the corner, so long as the Consumer Price Index continues to fall.

The Japanese Yen (JPY) oscillates in a narrow trading band against its American counterpart during the Asian session on Friday and reacts little to domestic consumer inflation figures, which eased as expected in December.

The European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Bostjan Vasle spoke at the Euromoney conference in Vienna about investor speculation regarding imminent interest rate cuts.

The Pound Sterling (GBP) recovers swiftly as stubbornly high UKConsumer Price Index (CPI) data for December has pushed back expectations of early rate cuts by the Bank of England (BoE).

The Euro (EUR) fell against most of its major currency peers on Thursday as Euro investors rebalance their exposure.

The Pound Sterling (GBP) has surrendered some gains as the United States Retail Sales turned out significantly upbeat than expectations.

JPMorgan's chief warned "powerful forces" from geopolitical risks to the Fed's policy moves have yet to unfurl in the economy.

It seemed the right thing to do at the time. As the catastrophe of the global financial crisis began to unfold nearly 15 years ago, central banks slashed interest rates close to zero and flooded the system with freshly printed money through the newfangled mechanism of “quantitative easing”.