Over the past three weeks, central banks around the world have made a number of comments that have affected rate hike expectations. On January 27, I showed where rate hike expectations were at the time and since then a number of interesting changes have occurred.

First, the market is now pricing in a 25bp rate hike by the Federal Reserve in December. Last month, no rate hike was expected.

Close to 70bp of tightening is now expected from the Bank of England, up from 50bp. The market went from pricing in two rate hikes from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to one. The European Central Bank and the Bank of Canada are now expected to tighten by 75bp this year instead of 50bp. A lot can change in three weeks.

Kathy Lien is Director of Currency Research at GFT, and runs KathyLien.com.