The action among global central banks in the first quarter was in Europe and Asia, where the European Central Bank, People’s Bank of China and many other central banks took aggressive new steps to ease monetary policy to boost lagging economies and low inflation.
Now in the second quarter the world’s attention will shift to the Federal Reserve, as it contemplates a move in the opposite direction. Read our global roundup of how the second quarter could play out for central banks around the world.
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