Central bank warning on lower than normal forex liquidity

Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, spoke in a phone interview.

He was speaking in his role as head of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee. Bloomberg with the report:

  • Debelle warned that even though volatility has subsided, liquidity in G10 currencies has only returned to "around 80% of where it was"
  • "the depth of liquidity is not what it was"
  • "Liquidity is decent but it's not completely back"
  • "Markets in the Asian region are much more back to normal than say Latin American for example"

On the USD:

  • The demand for the US dollar was also less universal than perceived during the crisis
  • markets like Australia and Canada showing little evidence of a shortage

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Comments from Debelle on liquidity are a heads up for the potential of outsized moves whould thre be market-moving news about. A bit of a heads up.

Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
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