Search Results for: interest rates
Negative interest rates and gold
August 30th, 2019
The reason for persistent strength in the price of gold can be found in the changing relationship between time preference for monetary gold, and a new round of interest rate suppression for the dollar. Evidence mounts that the ...
The Terrifying Truth About Negative Interest Rates
May 29th, 2019
Pushing interest rates below zero is both an act of desperation and something that in theory should have a huge, immediate impact of the behavior of borrowers and savers. The fact that negative rates have become the new normal ...
Federal Reserve raises interest rates
December 20th, 2018
The Federal Reserve has issued FOMC statement informing for its decision to raise the target for the federal funds rate to 2-1/4 to 2‑1/2 percent. Below is the federal Reserve FOMC statement as it was published: Information received since ...
Why interest rates are rising long-term
November 23rd, 2018
There are growing expectations that the current cycle of rising interest rates will result in a deflationary recession. While a credit crisis is increasingly likely to evolve in the coming months, it is a highly inflationary situation. A ...
European Central Bank released monetary policy decision on interest rates
July 27th, 2018
At its meeting on July 26, 2018, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain ...
The upcoming increase in interest rates
October 6th, 2017
Last week, both Janet Yellen of the Fed and Mark Carney of the Bank of England prepared financial markets for interest rate increases. The working assumption should be that this was coordinated, and that both the ECB and ...
European Central Bank decided interest rates to remain unchanged
April 28th, 2017
On its meeting dated April 27, 2017, the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged ...
Strong franc, negative interest rates expected to stay
December 21st, 2016
The Swiss economy will continue to be plagued by an over-valued franc and negative interest rates for the whole of next year, according predictions released by Credit Suisse bank economists. The silver lining to this forecast is that Swiss ...
The Fed Lifts Interest Rates On Outlook For Firmer Growth
December 16th, 2016
The Federal Reserve announced an increase in interest rates yesterday, nudging its target rate up by 25 basis points to a 0.50%-to-0.75% range. The central bank’s revised economic projections were slightly more hawkish too. Meantime, the government yesterday reported ...
FED expected to raise interest rates for the second time in 10 years
December 14th, 2016
Fed expected to raise interest rates but won’t tell market what it wants to hear The markets want to hear whether the Trump economy could jolt the Fed into a faster pace of interest rate hikes, but there’s little ...
