Weekend Edition: Bronwyn Curtis on central banks and growth

Friday 22nd March 2024Please note this communication is not a research report and has not been prepared by NAB Research analysts. Read the full disclaimer here.Bronwyn Curtis OBE is an Australian economist living in the UK with an illustrious career in finance. She’s headed Currency and Fixed Income at Deutsche Bank, then later at HSBC, as well as working fo the World Bank in Latin America and Asia, and overseeing development of Bloomberg’s European broadcast operations.Bronwyn joins Phil Dobbie to give her take on where monetary policy is right now and you’ll find some of her observations contradict the consensus. The Fed, for example, she thinks will move later and are unlikely to see through the three cuts markets are expecting. The ECB, meanwhile, have every reason to cut sooner. Longer term she thinks interest rates around 3 percent will be healthier for a growing economy.Listen into a wide-ranging discussion covering Europe, the US, China and the influence of Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.