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Central banks

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Markets InsightSabine Mauderer
    How climate risk will complicate central bankers’ jobs

    Severe weather events are intensifying and so too are their economic impacts

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  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Pound Sterling
    Sterling slides after Bailey says BoE could be ‘a bit more aggressive’ on rates

    Bank of England governor opens door to a faster pace of rate cuts if inflationary pressures continue to ease

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  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Turkish economy
    Turkish inflation falls below 50% in boon to Erdoğan

    Slowest price growth in over a year comes after painful rate rises

    Shoppers walk through a bustling market in the Ulus district of Ankara, examining a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Global Economy
    Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

    Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane but not all central banks have taken action yet. See how this affects you

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Global inflation
    Central banks must stay on inflation alert in era of volatility, says BIS

    Conflicts, climate change and trade disputes may require ‘forceful’ rate rises in future, says Basel-based body

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  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Pace of rate cuts is uncertain Premium content

    Central banks are in cutting mode — but how fast they will lower interest rates remains unclear

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  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    US interest rates
    Powell signals Fed will revert to quarter-point cut in November

    US central bank chair expresses ‘growing confidence’ of soft landing for economy

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  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    The Fed’s insurance policy

    Big interest rate cut is yet another evolution in paradigm of liquidity dominance

    A screen on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange displays a news conference with Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell on September 18
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    How to measure liquidity Premium content

    It’s hard

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    News in-depthReserve Bank of Australia
    Political ‘soap opera’ derails Australian central bank reform

    Opposition retracts support for new interest rate-setting board over concerns about biased appointees

    Michele Bullock, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Chinese economy
    Will China’s $100bn war chest for shares lift the real economy?

    Investors welcome ‘unprecedented’ central bank loans to try to boost markets but analysts say fiscal stimulus is needed

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  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Chinese economy
    China unleashes stimulus blitz to lift growth

    Central bank cuts benchmark rate and unveils support for property and stock markets to boost demand

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  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Three questions for Jay Powell Premium content

    The Fed went all out last week. The aftershocks of the jumbo cut are still reverberating

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  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    What if the Fed doesn’t matter? Premium content

    An interesting heresy

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Bank of Korea
    South Korea’s central bank chief warns over Gangnam-style housing boom

    Rhee Chang-yong calls for caps on university admissions from upmarket capital districts to check price growth

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  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Trade Secrets
    Stagflation piece of polycrisis has stubbornly failed to materialise Premium content

    Competent central banks have avoided a repeat of the Great Depression

    ECB president Christine Lagarde sitting on a sofa with her thumb up on one hand.
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Markets InsightTony Yates
    How Reeves should reform her old employer: the BoE

    The time is surely ripe for a rethink of some of the strictures governing the central lender

    Rachel Reeves
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Emerging market investing
    Investors hope US rate cuts will provide lift for emerging market debt

    Local currency bonds have lagged this year but Fed’s move is expected to ease pressure on developing nations

    Lesetja Kganyago, governor of the South Africa Reserve Bank, announces a cut in  rates
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    Did central banks get the inflation crisis right?

    Policymakers are lowering rates and signalling new confidence that a ‘soft landing’ is possible. But few are ready to declare victory

    The US Federal Reserve, Bank of England and European Central Bank, along with a line graph representing inflation
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    US interest rates
    Top Fed official would back more aggressive interest rate cuts if US data worsen

    Influential governor Christopher Waller says inflation is falling more quickly than he expected

    Christopher Waller
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Global Economy
    World economy faces pressures similar to 1920s, warns Lagarde

    ECB president highlights parallels between two eras but says modern central bankers have tools to manage structural change

    ECB president Christine Lagarde addresses a press conference in Frankfurt in July
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Bank of Japan
    BoJ holds interest rates and upgrades consumption outlook

    Central bank forecasts Japanese economy will keep growing at a pace above its potential growth rate

    A shopper, reflected on a mirror glass, checks food items at a supermarket in Tokyo, Japan
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    UK quantitative easing
    Why the OBR’s QT assumptions could be worth £15.5bn to Rachel Reeves

    And what it all means for Arsenal

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Bank of England
    Bank of England holds interest rates at 5%

    MPC indicates it may lower borrowing costs again as soon as November

    The Bank of England
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    News in-depthFederal Reserve
    Why the Fed opted for the big rate cut

    As US inflation eases, the central bank is now focused on its other mission: protecting jobs

    A montage of Jay Powell, a $100 bill, a line graph, blue and white stripes and the Federal Reserve building
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